Nic Cheeseman writes about the new GDP numbers in Kenya. They are not ready yet, viagra and the jump in GDP will not be as big as they were in Nigeria or Ghana. As in Nigeria and Ghana the new numbers will not make...
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Tag: Democracy in Africa
Reflecting back, looking forwards: Interview with Democracy in Africa
Democracy in Africa asked me about developments in my field in the past year, and what I thought are the main challenges and exciting opportunities ahead. Read the interview here.
The politics of agricultural statistics
I am writing the first of a series of posts on Agriculture and Politics for the blog Democracy in Africa. I talk about some findings in a recent paper, and how it relates to the general political economy of statistics in poor countries. Some...
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Democracy in Africa reviews Poor Numbers
Democracy in Africa reviews my book starting by asking Are we too eager to build economic models and development policies and too slow to look at the quality of the data that underwrites them? Read more here.