Hidden Economy
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Muhammad Chatib Basri* There is no precise historical record of whether it was Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli who said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Regardless, in many cases statistics seem to "lie" because they do not truly reflect the actual underlying conditions. This can be seen by the obvious contradictions in
*Research director, LPEM-FEUI, and lecturer, FEUI.
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