In the latest issue of the Africa Report the editor asks: Are the reams of statistics emanating from the United Nations (UN), shop World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) mere works of fiction? Read the editorial here.
Category: Poor Numbers
“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.
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.
Poor Numbers featured in the Toronto Review
The Toronto Review of International Affairs, clinic interviews me about my book - read the exchange here. I also let them use some of my nice pictures from my research trips, shop like this one here from the Navikubo Market in Kampala.
Poor Numbers
Publisher: Cornell University Press. Language: English Pages: 176 pages Read more reviews and media coverage here. Poor Numbers is available from Amazon in hardcover, treat paperback and e-book formats. In the UK the paperback is now in stock and retails for £13.82. It is now...
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Statistics in Africa: Making Africa count
The Economist writes about statistics in Africa based on an interview with Morten Jerven. Read the story here.
Poor Numbers in the ‘Africa Rising’ debate in Foreign Policy
FOREIGN POLICY article - January 28, 2013. "We Have No Idea if Africa Is Rising" Recent FP contributors have said that Africa is and is not rising. They're both wrong because they don't have the numbers to back it up. Read the Article
I talk about my book with Russ Roberts on EconTalk
Morten Jerven, sale author of Poor Numbers, stomach talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and methodology both across countries and within a...
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