Measuring African Development: Past and Present – Special Issue
In 2013 the chief economist for the World Bank’s Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development and declared “Africa’s...
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Population Statistics
The history of counting populations – with a focus on the 19th and the 20th century, is the subject of a workshop to be held in Villa Vigoni, Italy 17-19 of June. The title of the conference is...
View ArticleThe renaissance of African economic history
That is the promising title of the introduction to a special issue by Gareth Austin and Steven Broadberry soon to be published by Economic History Review. The special issue will be launched at the LSE...
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Just Published: Measuring African Development: Past and Present
Very happy to the see Measuring African Development: Past and Present in print. You can read an open access of the introduction to the book here. The volume takes you through the very first household...
View ArticleCall for papers WEHC 2015: Counting people, understanding economies: global...
Gerardo Serra (Sussex) and I are issuing a call for papers for the panel on ‘Counting People, Understanding Economies: Global Histories of Registration and Demographic Statistics’ that we set up for...
View ArticleWant a fully funded PhD and work with me @Noragric & @UniNMBU on the politics...
TweetInternational Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences is calling for applications for PhD positions. The positions are fully funded, and are...
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