Special Issue: Measuring African Development
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Page : 209 pages
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Release : 2014
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Page : 209 pages
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Release : 2014
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Author : Morten Jerven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1317552989
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 bookw as published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
Author : John Andrew Van der Poll
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Release : 2021
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Author : Muchie Mammo
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
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ISBN : 9781909112094
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Information technology
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 1995
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Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2015
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Author : Morten Jerven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317369335
What do we know about economic development in Africa? The answer is that we know much less than we would like to think. This collection assesses the knowledge problem present in statistics on poverty, agriculture, labour, education, health, and economic growth. While diverse in origin, the contributors to this book are unified in two conclusions: the quality and quantity of data needs to be improved; and this is a concern not just for statisticians. Weaknesses in statistical methodology and practice can misinform policy makers, international agencies, donors, the private sector, and the citizens of African countries themselves. This is also a problem for academics from various disciplines, from history and economics to social epidemiology and education policy. Not only does academic work on Africa regularly use flawed data, but many problems encountered in surveys challenge common academic abstractions. By exploring these flaws, this book will provide a guide for scholars, policy makers, and all those using and commissioning surveys in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Development Studies.
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Page : 297 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Olayinka Akanle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319662422
This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent’s development. It interrogates and answers established, critical, current and pragmatic problems confronting Africa today, and provides workable pathways out of the development problems, so that scholarship, policy and practice will be positively impacted. This volume adds great depth and extended breadth to the knowledge base on development of Africa. It provides excellent resources for academics, scholars, student, policy makers and all those interested in issues affecting Africa’s development.