When official statistics are unavailable or unreliable, researchers can use a range of forensic methods – such as satellite imagery, mirror trade data, price monitoring, refugee surveys, humanitarian data, and text mining – to extract credible economic information, with North Korea illustrating both the possibilities and limits of studying economic ‘black holes’.
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