@alexcobham any of these reasons could be true, but stopping them wouldn't double Zambia's GDP (and that's what I'm concerned with)
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@MForstater Simply ignoring the Swiss prices as 'extraordinary' - despite the consistent pattern over time, countries and commodities...
@alexcobham Don't ignore them. But multiplying those prices by volumes of exports that go no where near Switzerland does not add information
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@alexcobham & 'framing' the resulting composite no. so that it can easily be misunderstood as implying smething else takes away information -
@MForstater am sorry you see it that way. Out of interest, do you think this area worth exploring at all? - 1 more reply
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@MForstater as you know, we take multiple approaches to explore. You seem to be ignoring my replies? -
@MForstater and q of where those exports go remains open, given eg scale of freezones as additional opaque trade poss
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