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The data gap

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Statistics on scientific investment and performance are lacking across the Muslim world. Declan Butler analyses the best of what is available.

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  1. The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRTCIC) www.sesrtcic.org/statistics/bycountry.php

  2. UNESCO Statistics Division http://stats.uis.unesco.org/ReportFolders/reportfolders.aspx

  3. World Development Indicators (WDI), 2006 http://devdata.worldbank.org/wdi2006/contents/index2.htm

  4. National Science Board. Science and Engineering Indicators 2006. (National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA) www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind06/

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  1. See Editorial, page 1 ; Commentaries, pages 33 , 35 .

    • Declan Butler is a reporter for Nature based in Paris. Additional reporting by Ayla Arslan.

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