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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 9 19 60 601
African Growth Miracle or Statistical Tragedy?: Interpreting Trends in the Data Over the Past Two Decades 0 0 0 94 2 6 14 102
Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 0 0 4 5 14 355
Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run 0 0 0 86 0 0 5 245
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 78
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: A review 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 196
Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources 0 0 0 61 2 6 18 352
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources 0 0 0 0 4 8 25 327
Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present 0 0 3 175 2 4 20 253
Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present 0 2 2 59 2 6 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 9 9 13 38
Social Capital as a Determinant of Economic Growth in Africa 0 0 1 464 6 7 11 1,005
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 53
Total Working Papers 0 2 8 1,098 45 79 218 3,693


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 1 2 17 82
Agricultural Statistics 0 0 0 40 0 2 9 244
An unlevel playing field: national income estimates and reciprocal comparison in global economic history 0 0 0 33 1 2 11 118
Book Reviews 0 0 0 6 2 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 2 3 13 128
Counting the Bottom Billion 0 0 0 33 1 1 7 101
Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ? 0 0 0 12 1 6 14 69
Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ? 0 1 1 2 4 7 15 37
Does it pay to be poor? Testing for systematically underreported GNI estimates 0 0 0 38 6 6 10 163
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 3 11 81
Growth, Stagnation or Retrogression? On the Accuracy of Economic Observations, Tanzania, 1961–2001 0 0 0 20 4 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 3 5 10 176
Statistical Tragedy in Africa? Evaluating the Data Base for African Economic Development 0 0 3 80 4 4 18 191
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 1 1 30
The Failure of Economists to Explain Growth in African Economies 0 0 0 14 1 2 4 35
The quest for the African dummy: explaining African post‐colonial economic performance revisited 0 0 1 134 1 2 8 344
Trapped between tragedies and miracles: Misunderstanding African economic growth 0 0 0 7 1 2 5 28
Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010 0 0 0 17 4 7 15 91
Total Journal Articles 0 1 7 578 38 61 182 2,122


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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