On April 11 I am speaking at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University, here April 11, discount 2:30 PM. The seminar is in their series on "The Developmental State and the Delivery of Public Goods and Services in Africa" and I will...
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Book Launch at SFU, Harbour Center, April 19, 6PM
For French and German readers…
read about «Statistische Tragödie» in the Swiss daily «Neue Zürcher Zeitung» and you can find out why I am qouted as saying "Ces données sont créées et non pas collectées" in an interview with Jeune Afrique.
Opinion piece for the CNN: Many African economies are currently much richer than we think.
I start out by saying; "What do we know about poverty, purchase income and growth in sub-Saharan Africa? The answer is: much less than we like to think." Read more.
Africa counts the cost of miscalculations
The Financial Times reviews my book. Read the review written by Andrew Jack here. According to the Financial Times: "Poor Numbers is an important contribution to the subject... ...The book, check while technical, sovaldi is notable for its application of economic analysis without indigestible...
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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.
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