Already in 2011 and 2012, news of the forthcoming book caused some stir in the Media, locally and internationally. The coverage has continued in 2013. Please find a collection of the news reports, blog commentary and reviews of the book below.
21 May, 2013, Africa Research Institute, “Africa’s GDP Conundrum – in Conversation With Morten Jerven”
21 May, 2013, The London School of Economics, “Book Review: Poor Numbers”
16 May, 2013, Touch Points, “Africa: The Best Guess”
14 May, 2013, Times of India, “Bill Gates: Development efforts will be misdirected”
2 May, 2013, The Gates Notes, “Poor Numbers”
(Reprinted several places such as; 7 May, 2013, Asia comentada, “A Cruzada de Bill Gates”; 8 May, 2013, The Guardian, “How GDP understates economic growth”; 11 May, 2013, Taipei Times, “The problem with poor countries’ GDP”; 11 May, 2013, Nyasa Times, “The problem with poor countries GDP”;13 May, 2013, La Patilla, “Bill Gates: El problema de PIB de los paises pobres”; 13 May, 2013, Le Temps, “Si nous voulons aider les pays pauvres, cessons de parler de PIB”; 14 May, 2013, Daily Star, “Accurate GDP estimates mean we can help poor countries better”; 15 May, 2013, The Zimbabwe Mail, “How GDP understates economic growth”;17 May, 2013, AFRIPOL, “Poor Numbers: BOOK REVIEW by Bill Gates”;17 May, 2013, Today, “The problem with poor countries’ GDP”;21 May, 2013, The Namibian, “The Problem with Poor Countries’ GDP”)
09 May, 2013, Money News, “Using GDP to Measure Economies Understates Growth”
07 May, 2013, Voice of America “Questions About Over Growth Statistics in Africa”
25 April 2013, Foreign Affairs, “Book Review”
19 April 2013, Vancouver Sun, “Bad data leads to bad decisions on foreign aid”
08 April 2013, Africa Report, “Politics, damned lies and statistics”
27 March 2013, CNN, “Is Africa much richer than we think?”
18 March 2013, Jeune Afrique, “Ces données sont créées et non pas collectées”
13 March 2013, The Daily Texan, “Interview with Bill Gates”
24 February 2013, Financial Times, “Africa counts the cost of miscalculations”
28 January 2013, Foreign Policy, “We Have No Idea if Africa Is Rising”
13 January 2013, France TV, “L’Afrique va mieux qu’on ne le pense”
10 January 2013, Chris Blattman, “Link”
08 January 2013, African Arguments, “Africa’s image and reality: wealth and poverty sit side-by-side”
09 January 2013, Marginal Revolution (by Tyler Cowen), “Link”
07 January 2013, Econtalk, “Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress”
19 December 2012, Financial Times, “Africa: underestimating GDP”
08 December 2012, BBC, “How to boost GDP stats by 60%”
08 December 2012, Dagbladet, “Er Afrika rikere enn vi tror?”
06 December 2012, Ny Tid, “Å måle vekst og ulikhet”
26 November 2012, Foreign Policy, “Link”
21 November 2012, Marginal Revolution (by Tyler Cowen), “Ghana “fact” of the day”
20 November 2012, African Arguments, “Poor Numbers”
20 November 2012, The Guardian, “Lies, damn lies and GDP”
09 November 2012, Business Week (by Charles Kenny), “What Rising TV Ownership Reveals About Africa’s Future”
24 November 2012, Washington Post, “Think U.S. GDP numbers are unreliable? Check out Ghana”
23 July 2012, Vancouver Sun, “African statistics paint misleading picture of wealth”
05 December 2011, Voice of America, “New Research Confronts Africa’s ‘Statistical Tragedy’”
28 February 2011, Chris Blattman, “Exactly what are African growth statistics based on?”
