According to the recommendations by the ONE Campaign . The list includes recent books by Bill Clinton; Chimamanda Ngozi; Adichie Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo; and Taiye Selasi as well as Poor Numbers.
Center for Data Innovation
comments on Poor Numbers.
Numbers and statistics can be very deceitful…
...writes David F. K. Mpanga in the Uganda Monitor. He discusses Poor Numbers, and particular its relevance for labour statistics in Uganda.
Ken Opalo on Poor Numbers in Kenya
Governing a country is hard. Developing a poor country is even harder. Trying to do both with little reliable information on the state of a country — like total agricultural output, unemployment rate, births and deaths, and the like — is like flying without...
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Poor Numbers reviewed by Africa Check
Africa Check is a non-profit organisation which promotes accuracy in public debate. One of the things they do is to check the accuracy of numbers used in the public domain in South Africa and beyond. It is therefor nice to see they have reviewed...
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GDP in Ghana – Two lines
As I have discussed elsewhere (here, here and here), in 2010, Ghana changed its base year for GDP calculation from 1993 to 2006, and the cumulative effect of change in methods, base year and adding new data on economic activities meant that total GDP...
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Poor Numbers Presentation at Birmingham
On 7 May 2013 I presented Poor Numbers at the Africa Talks of the University of Birmingham. It was filmed and is now posted. http://youtu.be/ypGikIFf8LM
Book talk at UMB in Ås, Norway
I present my book at noon on August 13 at the UMB School of Economics and Business, recipe and then on August 14, there is a public event in from 6 pm, organized by Vitenparken, called Perspektiver på Afrika. Poor Numbers will be available for...
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Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995
That's the title of my next book. To be published by Oxford University Press. It is expected to be available in March 2014.
Poor Numbers featured in Nature’s Summer Books
In the short review, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, writes: This book offers fascinating, disturbing insights for anyone interested in the role of numbers in the social sciences. For those using global economic databases, it should be required reading. Read more here.