Africa's Statistical Tragedy
Africa's Statistical Tragedy
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Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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English
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Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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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 In many countries, GDP accounts use old methods, population censuses are out of date, and poverty estimates are infrequent and often not comparable...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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0034-6586
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1475-4991
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10.1111/roiw.12013