4 ms·There have some governments outside of the developed world accused of manipulating inflation numbers.by jowea 1y agoThere have some governments outside of the developed world accused of manipulating inflation numbers.sokoloff 1y agoThere have been allegations of the same in well-developed economies as well.chii 1y agoThose well-developed economies' data is mostly corroborated by proxy measurements (like light levels, copper/electricity consumption etc).