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Periodical article |
Title: | A West African experiment: constructing a GDP series for colonial Ghana, 1891-1950 |
Author: | Jerven, Morten |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | The Economic History Review (ISSN 1468-0289) |
Volume: | 67 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 964-992 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | economic history gross national product |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0289.12066/full |
Abstract: | There has been a recent surge in research on long-term African development. For this research agenda to be fruitful and its theories tested, it is crucial to have consistent estimates of economic change. However, there is a lack of reliable time series data for the colonial period in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article contributes new time series data for the Gold Coast and Ghana between 1890 and 2010 and in particular a new GDP time series for Ghana for the years 1891-1957. |