Nothing exactly on that topic comes to mind, but here are two possibilities:

(1) Yoshiko Herrera and Devesh Kapur. "Improving Data Quality: Actors,
Incentives, and Capabilities."
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eherrera/YHDK050802.pdf

(2) Michael L. Ross. "Is Democracy Good for the Poor?"
http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/ross/Does%20Democracy%20Reduce%20IMR%20-%20full%20version.pdf
(Tackles the question from the perspective of selection bias induced by
differential patterns of missing data for indicators of infant mortality
and the like.)

Cheers, Irfan

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Gary Klass wrote:

> I'm looking for articles, commentaries or reports on data collection
> practices and the reliability of data reported for developing countries
> in the United Nations Human Development Reports and\or the World Bank
> World Development Indicators.
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