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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What does Nigeria’s new GDP number actually mean?
Read my write up for African Arguments here.
Nigeria publishes new GDP numbers = Nigeria biggest economy in Africa
So it is official. The new GDP number for Nigeria was released today. It is 80.3 trillion naira for 2013. That is according to NBS this afternoon. The old GDP number was 42.4 trillion naira. The increase is bigger than per-announced and Nigeria overtakes...
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Two nice tweets on Nigerian GDP rebasing
Nigeria Rebases GDP
The announcement is expected to be made on Sunday. It has been expected any day now for almost three years, pilule so it is about time. As I documented in Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do...
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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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Reflecting back, looking forwards: Interview with Democracy in Africa
Democracy in Africa asked me about developments in my field in the past year, and what I thought are the main challenges and exciting opportunities ahead. Read the interview here.
The African Statistics Debate
As I posted a few weeks ago, I did attend the meetings at the Symposium for Statistical Development in Africa in Botswana last week. Magnus Taylor at African Arguments sums it up nicely. There were some productive exchanges, and then there some that were not...
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The History of Poverty in Africa
At the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, Rhiannon Stephens is organizing what promises to be an excellent conference on the History of Poverty in Africa. Jane Guyer is giving a keynote on Thursday March 6, and then there is a full...
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Poor Numbers in the Lancet.
The Lancet has a regular column, ampoule called the Art of Medicine. I was asked to write something for them on the basis of Poor Numbers. Here it is.