That's the title of the panel I am invited to speak on at a conference organized by Oxford Analytica, 18-20 September. I am on a panel with Diana Layfield, a Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Africa, Michael Lalor from Ernst and Young (and...
Read more ›
Year: 2013
Booktalk in Edinburgh, 18th Sep 16:00 – 18:00
On Wednesday I give a talk in Edinburgh. It is hosted by the Centre of African Studies. The details are here.
Special Issue: Measuring Income, Wealth, Inequality, and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa: Challenges, Issues, and Findings
The special issue in the Review of Income and Wealth on Measuring Income, Wealth, Inequality, and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa is published. The issue collects some papers that were presented on the 2011 IARIW-SSA Conference on Measuring National Income, Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality...
Read more ›
Booktalk at the University of Michigan Tuesday 10 Sep at 4 pm
I am presenting my book at the University of Michigan Tuesday 10 Sep at 4 pm. The talk is hosted by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.Details here.
Back to school: 5 books about Africa you should be reading
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...
Read more ›
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...
Read more ›
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...
Read more ›