If you have sat through more than two conferences and workshops on the post-2015 development agenda or the Sustainable Development Goals (or tracked #SDGs or #data2015 on Twitter) you will be aware that there is a certain repetition of ideas. The same soundbites are...
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Category: Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered
Towards a History of Economic Growth in Africa
From the OUP blog, the summary of the key findings of my latest book: The book offers a reconsideration of economic growth in Africa in three respects. First, it shows that the focus has been on average economic growth and that economic growth has...
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Why measurement matters?
Oxford University Press posted a blog about my latest book - Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, view Kenya, physician Tanzania, and and Zambia, 1965-1995 - read the post here.
Towards a new history of economic growth in Africa
Is it only me who thinks it is a bit strange that the most read book on African economic growth, the Bottom Billion, focuses on explaining why African economies are stuck in chronic failure of growth - while African economies on average has been...
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A history of economic growth in Africa: why measurement matters
The GDP re-basing in Nigeria again brought measurement to the center of debates on African economic development, just like it happened when Ghana re-based their GDP in 2010. There has been more commentary in mainstream media this time around - and also a fair...
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Poor Numbers @ Ottawa University
I am invited to give a talk based on Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) at Ottawa at the Center for International Policy Studies. I might also draw upon...
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