I am very happy to announce that the database on taxation for African countries that covers the whole 20th century is finally ready. Download it here. With Thilo Albers and Marvin Suesse, we have been collecting tax and revenue data on all African polities...
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We are recruiting two new colleagues! Tenure track positions in Global Political Economy and Environmental Governance
We are looking for two new colleagues at Internation Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Both positions will consider various backgrounds, but the hope is to find somone suitable to contribute to teaching in International Relations and Political...
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Two positions in International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU
Come join me and my wonderful colleagues and work with us in International Environment and Development Studies at NMBU. We are hiring one Senior Lecturer, and we are also announcing a fully funded PhD position. The Senior Lecturership is open to any discipline and...
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The History of Poverty in Africa by Numbers
I just published a new article in the Journal of African History The History of African Poverty by Numbers: Evidence and Vantage Points. The Journal of African History, 59(3), 449-461 I have posted by ungated pre-proof version of the article here. There are excellent...
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We are hiring 30 (!) Chancellor Fellows in Data Sciences
Calling on all data scientists & critical scholars working on how statistics, data, big data and logarithms change production of knowledge and decision making. University of Edinburgh is are appointing up to 30 (!) tenure track Chancellor Fellows. The fellow will be hosted or...
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Ruling the World by Numbers: streaming lectures online
For those who want to follow the lectures in my course "Ruling the world by numbers" online, the lectures will stream live here from 12:15 till 14:00. The lectures run every monday from 12:15 to 14:00 as per the schedule below. I will also...
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Ruling the World by Numbers: Preliminary Syllabus – Comments Welcome
Here's the preliminary version of the syllabus. Comments welcome. We also have the facilities to stream the lectures live if there are people who wants to audit the course. Let me know.
Discussing ‘Poor Numbers’ with Bill Easterly
You can follow the facebook chat here. The chat formally launches the paper: 'Development By Numbers: A primer' (short version here) and we will of course also touch upon issues discussed in my books on the subject. See you in the FB chat, and...
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Why so grumpy? The datarevolution and its discontents
In "Big Questions for Big Data and what it can do for African Economic Development" I wrote about some of the basic knowledge problems that remain in development statistics, and concluded that, as of yet, Big Data does not seem well equipped in addressing...
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IMF and Ebola: why we don’t have any good answers
The debate on whether IMF has any blame for Ebola has been frustrating, even infuriating. It is going to continue to be frustrating largely because: “Who is to blame for Ebola?” is really not a good question. In turn, we have not got good...
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