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Morten Jerven

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Professor of Development Studies @Noragric and Economic History @LuEconHist Author of books like Poor Numbers https://teapaw.org/t.co/gueiUVXY3b & https://teapaw.org/t.co/bDuaK8DJBg

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"should be required reading for anyone who cares about African development" @bill_easterly africanarguments.org/africa-… ow.ly/M01Ob
Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong | African Arguments

Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong | African Arguments

About the Author Morten Jerven teaches at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Develo...

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Just published! "On the persistence of persistence: Lessons from long-term trends in African Institutions" academic.oup.com/afraf/artic…
On the persistence of persistence: Lessons from long-term trends in African Institutions

On the persistence of persistence: Lessons from long-term trends in African Institutions

Abstract. An influential strand of literature within economics and economic history called ‘persistence studies’ argues that low material living standards

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Thought counting people from space was new? Think again. 1972 Nigerian. In three simple steps...
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Imagine the village
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Estimate!
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Thor Olav@ThorOIvers13 May 2023
How has humanity made global hunger visible to itself through statistics? An article from my PhD tries to answer this question and is now published in World Development Perspectives.
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Anyone else who gets genuinely excited by finding a copy of the return forms for the Nigeria 1973 census? Working in the UN Archives in New York this week @UNLibrary
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And perhaps a bit interesting, considering the data processing cost of this in 1973, we have the ethnic origin question - you can choose Nigerian or non-Nigerian
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How much should we trust developing country GDP? A reappraisal by @oliverwkim 10 yrs after @MJerven's 'Poor Numbers'. global-developments.org/p/ho… h/t @JWPaller
How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?

How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?

A Review of Morten Jerven's Poor Numbers, A Decade On

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Alex Cohen@alexwcohen3 Jan 2025
Just finished "Epic Measures" - a book about the founding of IHME and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project, which aims to measure mortality and disability across 200+ countries Some takeaways and open questions 🧵
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New post: How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP? global-developments.org/p/ho…
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The African Economic History Network annual meeting in Rome kicks off with the keynote held by my thesis advisor Gareth Austin. @AfEconHis
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PhD students take note: here are Gareth Austin's five suggestions for research questions that are unresolved
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And finally he proposes to throw out the Murdock Atlas and make a database that actually has historical information
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Yet more questions
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Oh .. 5 more I think q 9 is particularly interesting #aehn
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«Om vanlige folk kjenner på at ting er dyrere, så kan (Langum) Becker forklare at det er bare et «prislappsjokk» og at selv om vi har dårlig råd, betyr ikke det at vi er i en økonomisk krise – «det bare føles sånn». @MJerven om NRKs økonomikommentator. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202…
Dyrtida er ikke en følelse | Klassekampen

Dyrtida er ikke en følelse | Klassekampen

Folk får ikke bedre råd av at NRKs økonomikommentator sier at dyrtida kun er noe vi føler på.

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File this under "as soon as a measurement becomes important, it becomes useless". Presenting on Poor Numbers, I was often asked if all stats are political. I pointed to rain stats, but noted it would change if subsidies was linked. cbsnews.com/colorado/news/co… via @CBSNewsColorado
Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidies

Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidies

Two southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought...

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Juksemaker pipelort! klassekampen.no/artikkel/202…
Juksemaker pipelort | Klassekampen

Juksemaker pipelort | Klassekampen

Plagiatsakene viser både økonomisk rasjonelle handlinger og mangel på folkeskikk.

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«Hvorfor hamrer sentralbanksjef Ida Wolden Bache fortsatt løs, når verktøyet hennes ikke fungerer?» spør @MJerven i nok en god analyse som viser at sentralbankens handlinger ikke følger en naturlov.
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