Mickey Mouse numbers and inequality research in developing countries
指出发展经济学中常用不可靠统计数据，以台湾收入分配均等化为例揭示证据缺陷、数据处理问题及出口导向与不平等关系的薄弱，呼吁经济学家重视数据问题。
The usage of unreliable statistics is common in development economics, particularly in research on income distributional issues. It is widely believed, for example, that the distribution of income in Taiwan equalised dramatically between the early 1950s and about 1980. Under close examination it is clear much of the evidence advanced is flawed, the treatment of data by a number of analysts is puzzling, and links between export‐orientation and inequality trends are flimsy. It is argued that economists should be far more concerned about data problems in their research.