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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
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African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa 1 1 2 147 13 37 44 582
African Growth Miracle or Statistical Tragedy?: Interpreting Trends in the Data Over the Past Two Decades 0 0 0 94 6 7 8 96
Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 0 0 2 7 10 350
Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run 0 0 0 86 3 4 6 245
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 75
Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: A review 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 193
Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources 0 0 0 61 8 11 14 346
Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources 0 0 0 0 4 15 20 319
Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present 2 2 3 175 10 13 18 249
Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present 0 0 0 57 3 4 7 82
Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: prospects for growth in Africa: learning from patterns of long-term economic change 0 0 0 12 2 3 4 29
Social Capital as a Determinant of Economic Growth in Africa 0 0 1 464 1 2 5 998
Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present 0 0 0 0 5 8 10 50
Total Working Papers 3 3 6 1,096 57 117 158 3,614


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 7 12 16 80
Agricultural Statistics 0 0 0 40 4 7 8 242
An unlevel playing field: national income estimates and reciprocal comparison in global economic history 0 0 1 33 3 7 11 116
Book Reviews 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 26
Comparability of GDP estimates in Sub-Saharan Africa: The effect of Revisions in Sources and Methods Since Structural Adjustment 0 0 1 38 3 5 10 125
Counting the Bottom Billion 0 0 0 33 1 5 7 100
Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ? 0 0 0 12 6 8 9 63
Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ? 0 0 0 1 4 6 10 30
Does it pay to be poor? Testing for systematically underreported GNI estimates 0 0 2 38 2 3 6 157
GDP Revisions and Updating Statistical Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reports from the Statistical Offices in Nigeria, Liberia and Zimbabwe 0 0 1 30 3 5 8 78
Growth, Stagnation or Retrogression? On the Accuracy of Economic Observations, Tanzania, 1961–2001 0 0 0 20 5 7 8 172
Random Growth in Africa? Lessons from an Evaluation of the Growth Evidence on Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, 1965-1995 0 0 2 60 1 2 7 171
Statistical Tragedy in Africa? Evaluating the Data Base for African Economic Development 0 0 5 80 4 6 18 187
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 0 29
The Failure of Economists to Explain Growth in African Economies 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 33
The quest for the African dummy: explaining African post‐colonial economic performance revisited 1 1 1 134 3 6 7 342
Trapped between tragedies and miracles: Misunderstanding African economic growth 0 0 0 7 2 3 3 26
Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010 0 0 0 17 1 5 8 84
Total Journal Articles 1 1 13 577 50 89 138 2,061


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 2 5 9 64
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 64


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