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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Poor numbers</title>
    <subTitle>how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Jerven, Morten</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1978-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2013</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xx, 187 pages ; 23 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>What do we know about income and growth in Africa? -- Measuring African wealth and progress -- Facts, assumptions and controversy : lessons from the datasets -- Data for development : a guide to African development statistics -- Conclusion : development by numbers.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Morten Jerven.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Economic development</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Sub-Saharan</geographic>
    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>National income</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Southern</geographic>
    <topic>Accounting</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Economic indicators</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Sub-Saharan</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Desarrollo económico</topic>
    <geographic>Subsahariana (Africa)</geographic>
    <topic>Estadística</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Renta nacional</topic>
    <geographic>África del Sur</geographic>
    <topic>Contabilidad</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Africa, Sub-Saharan</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>Subsahariana (Africa)</geographic>
    <topic>Condiciones económicas</topic>
    <topic>Estadística</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Africa, Sub-Saharan</geographic>
    <topic>Statistical services</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">500 HC 800 J57p 2013</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">338.967</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780801451638 (cloth : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780801478604 (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2012045248</identifier>
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