Over 200 global economists seek junked NSO report details from govt

Chorus to make junk NSO report public grows

Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, French economist Thomas Piketty, Oxford professor Barbara Harris-White, former Planning Commission members Abhijit Sen and A Vaidyanathan, have joined hundreds of others in asking the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to release the junked National Statistical Office (NSO) consumer expenditure survey report for year 2017-18.

Empathising with the government's contention that the results of the survey may show divergent trend with the macroeconomic estimates of the national accounts, more than 200 renowned economists and scholars from across the globe, in a letter sent on Thursday, said that work can be done "to identify sources of and