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.
Year: 2013
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
I talk about my book with Russ Roberts on EconTalk
Morten Jerven, sale author of Poor Numbers, stomach talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and methodology both across countries and within a...
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