| Abstract: | Critically reviewing the available data on economic change in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda the author suggests some improvements: Those who prepare the Ugandan and Tanzanian real GDP estimates should in future provide estimates which account for changes in the terms of trade and thus which describe real income changes. The Kenya statisticians should in future offer real GDP data and the Tanzanian ones should provide more realistic estimates of the rate of population growth, so that inter-East African comparisons can more easily be made. Without these relatively marginal alterations full use of the energies expended on the production of the estimates will not be obtained and both public and private economic decision-makers may, in future, be seriously misled. References, tables: 1. Alternative measures of Tanzanian (mainland) aggregative economic performance, 1963-66; 2. Alternative measures of Ugandan aggregative economic performance, 1961-66; 3. Alternative measures of per capita real income growth in Tanzania and Uganda, 1963-66. |
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