Morten Jerven

Professor of Development Studies @Noragric and Economic History @LuEconHist
Author of books like Poor Numbers &

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

"should be required reading for anyone who cares about African development" @bill_easterly
http://t.co/8eSB33fdk9
http://t.co/NxtSRayR4L

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

Just published!
"On the persistence of persistence: Lessons from long-term trends in African Institutions" https://t.co/i5ZOlm6gzU

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

@Djibola7 In the planning purposes it stated that it decided to scrap it alltogether, but this is the watered out version. I do not have the 1991 or the 2006 census questionaire at hand, but I am guessing they did not have it in.

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

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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Estimate!

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

Thought counting people from space was new? Think again. 1972 Nigerian. In three simple steps...

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

Imagine the village

[Thor Olav @ThorOIvers]

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.

[Africa Research Inst @AfricaResearch]

How much should we trust developing country GDP? A reappraisal by @oliverwkim 10 yrs after @MJerven's 'Poor Numbers'. https://t.co/rIIBrSOGGp h/t @JWPaller

[Alex Cohen @alexwcohen]

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 🧵

[Oliver Kim @oliverwkim]

New post: How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?

https://t.co/orEbEFgodp

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

@estariade @AfEconHis Agreed!

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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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And finally he proposes to throw out the Murdock Atlas and make a database that actually has historical information

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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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Yet more questions

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

Oh .. 5 more

I think q 9 is particularly interesting

#aehn

[Morten Jerven @MJerven]

@DanicastilloGC @AfEconHis Thank you, hope to see you soon!

[Lars Audun Bråten @AudunBraten]

«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. https://t.co/p3rdbSFG8k