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Title:Measuring African development: past and present
Editor:Jerven, MortenISNI
Year:2015
Pages:215
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:1138842117; 9781138842113
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:economic development
statistics
evaluation
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Abstract: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 volume on measuring African development in the past and in the present - published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2014)) - 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. Contributors: Morton Jerven, Gerardo Serra (on Ghana), Vincent Bonnecase (en français, sur l'Afrique occidentale française), Alden Young (on Sudan), Felicitas Becker (on Tanzania), Boris Samuel (on Mauritania), Wim Marivoet and Tom De Herdt (on the Democratic Republic of Congo); Dwayne Woods (on African democratization, development and growth); Roy Carr-Hill (on measuring development progress in Africa); Katharina Welle (on Ethiopia); Christopher Cramer et al. (on Fair Trade and rural poverty); Johannes Hoogeveen et al. (on collecting high frequency panel data in Africa using mobile phone interviews). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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