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Measuring African Development

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Abboud Regime
Ac Ce Ss Ib Le
African Development Bank
African Economies
Cassava Cultivation
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Cocoa Marketing Board
Colonial Administration
colonial economic history
Colonial French West Africa
Da Ta
Data
Development
development indicators Africa
DHS Survey
Du Congo
economic data reliability
Economic Growth
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Gold Coast
Government Statistician
Gps Technology
Household Budget Surveys
household survey methodology
MDGs
Mic Survey
Mobile Phone Survey
National Income Accounting
Ould Ahmed Salem
Penn World Tables
political economy statistics
rural poverty measurement
Site Selection
South Sudan
State Capacity
statistical capacity in African countries
Statistics
Sudanese Economy
UN

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138842113
  • Weight: 544g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jan 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

The chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article "Africa's Statistical Tragedy". Is there a "statistical tragedy" unfolding in Africa now? If so, it becomes important to examine the roots of the problem as far as the provision of statistics in poor economies is concerned. This book, on measuring African development in the past and in the present, draws on the historical experience of colonial French West Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Mauritania and Tanzania and the more contemporary experiences of Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors each reflect on the changing ways statistics represent African economies and how they are used to govern them.

This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
About
Morten Jerven is associate professor at Simon Fraser University. He is an economic historian, publishing widely on patterns of African economic development including a recent book, Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It.