One-man GDPs

Because national statistics offices run skeletal staff, macroeconomic indicators become unreliable. Hollowed-out national accounts teams resort to guesstimates and non-reproducible methods, breaking comparability, inviting politicization, and warping budgets, aid targeting, and oversight. — If GDP, inflation, and sectoral output are built on guesswork, evidence-based policy and accountability fail across fiscal, development, and international financing debates.