Carlos Lopez, cialis the executive secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, seems to have read the right implications from my research in a blog post which starts: Counting matters! Statistics are the backbone of proper planning for Africa’s future... Read more here.
Year: 2013
Pictures from the book launch in Vancouver
“African Economic Development: Measuring Success and Failure”, drug an international conference was held recently at Simon Fraser University, pharmacy Vancouver, hospital Canada. On Friday April 19 I launched the book, you can see more pictures from the launch here. Over fifty leading scholars, data...
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Politics, Damned lies and statistics
In the latest issue of the Africa Report the editor asks: Are the reams of statistics emanating from the United Nations (UN), shop World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) mere works of fiction? Read the editorial here.
“Poor Numbers”: A Q&A with Dan Hirschman
Dan Hirschman, drugs the author of the blog asociologist.com, asks me some good questions about my book.
A series of booktalks start at Cornell University, April 11, 2:30 PM.
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.