Morten Jerven Morten Jerven

The great African data debate

Not my words, but that's what UNU-Wider calls it. As I written before I think that it is true that some countries have better data that are available through household surveys. BUT: not all of these are comparable, and availability  is NOT random, hence...
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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...
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