query: apocryphal?

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

is the following story apocryphal?

In the 1960s, economists flew into an African country to advise its
government. To the advisers' total surprise the country's later
economic performance fit their predictions exactly! It turned out that
the government had used the prediction, because it was the "best data
available."

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