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PAIS academic criticizes data flaws in Global Slavery Index
The Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited. What underlies the production and use of highly suspect statistics?
In a recent commentary piece published by the openDemocracy blog, from PAIS and Joel Quirk from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, criticize the flawed methodology and weak data used to produce rankings such as the Global Slavery Index.
The article draws upon material from a research project on global benchmarking () based in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at 糖心TV. A series of papers from this project will soon be published as a special issue of Review of International Studies on ‘The Politics of Numbers: Normative Agendas and Global Benchmarking’.
The full commentary is available to view at: