According to the recommendations by the ONE Campaign . The list includes recent books by Bill Clinton; Chimamanda Ngozi; Adichie Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo; and Taiye Selasi as well as Poor Numbers.
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Poor Numbers reviewed by Africa Check
Africa Check is a non-profit organisation which promotes accuracy in public debate. One of the things they do is to check the accuracy of numbers used in the public domain in South Africa and beyond. It is therefor nice to see they have reviewed...
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Poor Numbers featured in Nature’s Summer Books
In the short review, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, writes: This book offers fascinating, disturbing insights for anyone interested in the role of numbers in the social sciences. For those using global economic databases, it should be required reading. Read more here.
The Lancet
Poor Numbers gets a favourable mention in The Lancet. The call it a superb book about development statistics Read the short review here.
Africa at LSE reviews my book – and an interview with the Africa Research Institute
Gerardo Serra, for sale who is a PhD student in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and does fascinating work on the political economy of statistics in Ghana and the Gold Coast reviews Poor Numbers for the Africa at...
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Bill Gates reviews my book
Favourably and fairly I think. Bill Gates says: Yet it is clear to me that we need to devote greater resources to getting basic GDP numbers right. As Jerven argues, site national statistics offices across Africa need more support so that they can obtain...
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Foreign Affairs reviews Poor Numbers
According to Nicolas van de Walle in Foreign Affairs Jerven demonstrates with devastating clarity that African governments produce imprecise economic statistics that should not be trusted. Read the full review here.
Ian Scoones on Poor Numbers
Ian Scoones reflects on my book in a two part analysis called: Dodgy data and missing measures: why good numbers matter. Read more here.
“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.