"In the absence of actual data (such as an official census), NGO staff
make a back-of-envelope estimate in order to plan their projects; a
postgraduate visiting the NGO staff tweaks that estimate for his thesis
research; a journalist interviews the researcher and includes the
estimate in a newspaper article; a UN officer reads the article and
copies the estimate into her report; a television station picks up the
report and the estimate becomes the headline; NGO staff see the
television report and update their original estimate accordingly." (source: www.humanitarian.info) |
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