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Africa's Statistical Tragedy

Africa's Statistical Tragedy

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Africa's Statistical Tragedy

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Africa's Statistical Tragedy

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Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Journal title

The Review of income and wealth, 2013-10, Vol.59 (S1), p.S9-S15

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English

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Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Contents

While Africa may have overcome its growth tragedy, it is facing a statistical tragedy, in that the statistical foundations of the recent growth in per‐capita GDP and reduction in poverty are quite weak. In many countries, GDP accounts use old methods, population censuses are out of date, and poverty estimates are infrequent and often not comparable...

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Africa's Statistical Tragedy

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1497407495

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1497407495

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ISSN

0034-6586

E-ISSN

1475-4991

DOI

10.1111/roiw.12013

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