Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled By African Development Statistics and What to do About it (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) as written by Morten Jerven, is an extensive exploration of one of the largest obstacles in African economic development: the creation and implementation of a strategy for bettering statistical capacity. Accurate and reliable information is essential to the successful operation of government. It is also a requirement of non governmental organizations in order to run efficiently and effectively. Poor Numbers is the first book of its kind: a book which reviews the creation and implementation African economic development statistics.

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