FROM February 24 to this past Friday, the bean counters of the world attended the UN Statistics Commission in New York.
This reminded me of the last in-person commission of March 2020 which ended on the 7th. A few days later, the world was not the same – we were confronted by that which we now know as Covid-19, an experience that shook the world and changed it forever.
It is little wonder that the 54th commission convened a seminar in February last year, titled “Beyond GDP Sprint”, to probe