The Canadian Journal of Development Studies has just published an exciting new special issue titled ‘Measuring African Development: Past and Present’, guest edited by Morten Jerven.
This special issue on measuring African development in the past and in the present draws on the historical experience of colonial French West Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Mauritania and Tanzania and the more contemporary experiences of Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors each reflect on the changing ways statistics represent African economies and how they are used to govern them.
This special issue is FREE to read until May 30th 2014.