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Measuring African Development

By Morten Jerven

Measuring African Development book

Measuring African Development

By Morten Jerven

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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 then examining the roots of the problem of provision of statistics in poor economies is certainly of great importance. 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2015-01-07
Publication Date:
2015-01-07
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1138842117
ISBN13:
9781138842113
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
548 g
Height:
182 cm
Width:
255 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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