THE Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Governor, Prof Beno Ndulu, is expected to lead statisticians in the country during the commemoration of the African Statistics Day, 2017 which will be marked in Dar es Salaam on Monday.
Prof Ndulu will be his last appearance on the African Statistics Day before retiring at the end of this year.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
Director of Statistics Operations, Mr Irenius Ruyobya, said about 200
participants from ministries, departments, government institutions,
development partners, higher learning institutions, secondary school
students and statisticians are expected to attend.
“Themed ‘Better Lives with better
economic statistics,’ this day reminds us of capitalising on correct
economic statistics that will help the government to put up policies as
well as making assessment of various programmes including the second
Five Year Development Plan, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2020
and African Agenda 2063,’’ he said.
Each year Africa celebrates this day to
raise public awareness of the importance of statistics in all aspects of
social and economic life.
The theme of the day this year focuses
on the critical role economic statistics plays in underpinning economic
governance that leads to durable growth and linking economic growth with
better lives and better economic status for all citizens of Africa.
Above all, all key macroeconomic
variables (national accounts, savings and investment, employment
interest rates, inflation) and microeconomic (poverty, inequality,
social outcome indicators) are based on statistics.
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