Helen Joyce
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first heard Dec 2012
last heard Jan 2015
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So it's called the Global Slavery Index and it's produced by an NGO called Walk Free.
It's tackling a very important subject, which is modern day slavery, including things like child marriage and forced trafficking of people, forced labour.
These are not things that people have good figures on.
So they made some, shall we say, heroic assumptions based on very tiny surveys and so on.
And then the most shocking thing that they did is there are some countries for which there are literally no estimates whatsoever, not one single figure you can use.
So they go beyond using small figures, out-of-date figures, incomparable figures.
And they actually used figures for some countries for other countries on the grounds that they were vaguely similar.
And if you were trying to get some ballpark figure for the total number of slaves in the world today, this is just about something that you could imagine doing to come to a headline figure.
I think already it's a bit shoddy, but anyway.
But if you're then going to rank countries, and then the worst thing they did was they actually named and shamed the bottom countries.
And when you think how poor the data were, that's really totally unfair.
I do think there's a place for rankings and for categorising countries in, say, four or five countries.
because I think it's really clear and it's hard for politicians to wriggle out of a clear-cut judgment.
It's just that if you're going to do that, you have to be doing it with the most incredible integrity and you also have to be completely transparent about what you're doing.
I'm Helen Joyce.
I'm The Economist's Brazil correspondent, based in São Paulo, and I moved here in July 2010.
My number of 2012, the number that surprised me most during this year, is the average age of retirement of a Brazilian working in the private sector.
It's 53.
Now, Brazilians don't die at 55 or 58 or 60.
They live well into their 70s.
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