You could go further into Comtrade & break it down. Is this mint, lemon, orange, clove? Are the differences in price or quantity? What is the pattern over years? You could find someone who knows something about the trade in essential oils between Ireland & Egypt & talk to them
.... Unless the whole point of the methodology is to come up with big numbers. ..... because they can be used to argue for policies on transparency and accountability....
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I like transparency and accountability. Its a good hypothesis and hope. The idea that if people have access to data about what their govt & other powerful organisations are doing they will hold them accountable. But it is a dynamic that has to be built by people & organisations
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How can foundations contribute to that that if they are satisfied to keep funding the same organisations to produce the same reports, with the same lack of curiosity and scrutiny. ....."We need more transparency!" But don't look too closely at the analysis!
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