The history of counting populations - with a focus on the 19th and the 20th century, patient is the subject of a workshop to be held in Villa Vigoni, shop Italy 17-19 of June. The title of the conference is "Competing Numbers. Population Statistics...
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Category: Population Data
From Bigger to Better? Data Quality in Aid and Development
Special issue on data and development in the World Politics Review out last week. Contributions from Claire Melamed, ed Jack Goldstone and I contributed a write up on the gaps in the macroeconomic statistics in some African countries.
News in African Economic History
The African Economic History Network, no rx founded in 2011, just published its 10th Bimonthly Newsletter - summarizing new research and opportunities in African Economic History. The first African Economic History Working paper sets out the aims and objectives of the network, and there...
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