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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa 0 0 2 147 2 19 60 603
African Growth Miracle or Statistical Tragedy?: Interpreting Trends in the Data Over the Past Two Decades 0 0 0 94 1 3 15 103
Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 0 0 2 6 16 357
Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run 0 0 0 86 1 1 6 246
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 79
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: A review 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 197
Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources 0 0 0 61 0 4 18 352
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources 0 0 0 0 1 7 26 328
Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present 0 0 3 175 0 2 19 253
Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present 0 1 2 59 0 4 13 88
Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: prospects for growth in Africa: learning from patterns of long-term economic change 0 0 0 12 0 9 13 38
Social Capital as a Determinant of Economic Growth in Africa 0 0 1 464 0 7 11 1,005
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 53
Total Working Papers 0 1 8 1,098 9 70 224 3,702


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A West African experiment: constructing a GDP series for colonial Ghana, 1891–1950 0 0 0 3 0 1 16 82
Agricultural Statistics 0 0 0 40 0 0 9 244
An unlevel playing field: national income estimates and reciprocal comparison in global economic history 0 0 0 33 0 1 11 118
Book Reviews 0 0 0 6 0 2 2 28
Comparability of GDP estimates in Sub-Saharan Africa: The effect of Revisions in Sources and Methods Since Structural Adjustment 0 0 1 38 1 4 13 129
Counting the Bottom Billion 0 0 0 33 0 1 7 101
Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ? 0 0 0 12 2 4 16 71
Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ? 0 0 1 2 0 4 15 37
Does it pay to be poor? Testing for systematically underreported GNI estimates 0 0 0 38 1 7 11 164
GDP Revisions and Updating Statistical Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reports from the Statistical Offices in Nigeria, Liberia and Zimbabwe 0 0 1 30 2 5 13 83
Growth, Stagnation or Retrogression? On the Accuracy of Economic Observations, Tanzania, 1961–2001 0 0 0 20 0 4 12 176
Random Growth in Africa? Lessons from an Evaluation of the Growth Evidence on Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, 1965-1995 0 0 0 60 0 5 10 176
Statistical Tragedy in Africa? Evaluating the Data Base for African Economic Development 1 1 4 81 2 6 19 193
Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism. ByLeigh A. Gardner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi + 271 pp. Figures, tables, maps, references, index. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-966152-7 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 30
The Failure of Economists to Explain Growth in African Economies 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 35
The quest for the African dummy: explaining African post‐colonial economic performance revisited 0 0 1 134 7 8 15 351
Trapped between tragedies and miracles: Misunderstanding African economic growth 0 0 0 7 0 1 5 28
Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010 1 1 1 18 3 9 18 94
Total Journal Articles 2 2 9 580 18 63 197 2,140


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 66
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 66


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