Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It Date & Time: Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 6-8PM Venue: Brunei Suite, SOAS Speakers: Morten Jerven, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University. Respondent: Judith Randel, Executive Director of Development Initiatives. Chair: Dr...
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Category: Booktalk
Pictures from the book launch in Vancouver
“African Economic Development: Measuring Success and Failure”, drug an international conference was held recently at Simon Fraser University, pharmacy Vancouver, hospital Canada. On Friday April 19 I launched the book, you can see more pictures from the launch here. Over fifty leading scholars, data...
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“Poor Numbers”: A Q&A with Dan Hirschman
Dan Hirschman, drugs the author of the blog asociologist.com, asks me some good questions about my book.
Poor Numbers featured in the Toronto Review
The Toronto Review of International Affairs, clinic interviews me about my book - read the exchange here. I also let them use some of my nice pictures from my research trips, shop like this one here from the Navikubo Market in Kampala.
I talk about my book with Russ Roberts on EconTalk
Morten Jerven, sale author of Poor Numbers, stomach talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and methodology both across countries and within a...
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