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Beyond hunger in Africa : conventional wisdom and an African vision.
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ISBN: 9966468188 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Nairobi James Currey Heinemann Kenya

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Palaeoseismology : historical and prehistorical records of earthquake ground effects for seismic hazard assessment.
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ISBN: 1862392765 9781862392762 Year: 2009 Publisher: London The Geological Society


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Signes des temps : oeuvres visionnaires d'avant 1914
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ISBN: 9782873869052 2873869054 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bruxelles : Editions Racine,

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Des tableaux, photographies, dessins et sculptures réalisés de la fin du XIXe siècle au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, issus de collections internationales et traduisant l'incertitude des hommes face à l'avenir par des images prévisionnelles tour à tour apocalyptiques et pleines d'espérance. Exposition présentée au musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons. ©Electre 2015


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Poor numbers : how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it
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ISBN: 9780801451638 9780801478604 0801451639 080147860X 1322503621 0801467616 9780801467615 0801467608 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and international financial institutions such as the World Bank allocate their development resources on the basis of such data. The paucity of accurate statistics is not merely a technical problem; it has a massive impact on the welfare of citizens in developing countries.Where do these statistics originate? How accurate are they? Poor Numbers is the first analysis of the production and use of African economic development statistics. Morten Jerven's research shows how the statistical capacities of sub-Saharan African economies have fallen into disarray. The numbers substantially misstate the actual state of affairs. As a result, scarce resources are misapplied. Development policy does not deliver the benefits expected. Policymakers' attempts to improve the lot of the citizenry are frustrated. Donors have no accurate sense of the impact of the aid they supply. Jerven's findings from sub-Saharan Africa have far-reaching implications for aid and development policy. As Jerven notes, the current catchphrase in the development community is "evidence-based policy," and scholars are applying increasingly sophisticated econometric methods-but no statistical techniques can substitute for partial and unreliable data.

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Statistical science --- Quantitative methods (economics) --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Economic development --- National income --- Economic indicators --- Accounting --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Economic conditions --- Statistical services --- RELIABILITY -- 330.35 --- #SBIB:327.4H60 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Business indicators --- Indicators, Business --- Indicators, Economic --- Leading indicators --- Economic history --- Quality of life --- Economic forecasting --- Index numbers (Economics) --- Social indicators --- Net national product --- Flow of funds --- Gross national product --- Income --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Statistics. --- Accounting. --- Derde wereld: ontwikkeling, sociale verandering: algemeen --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Africa, Black --- Africa, Subsaharan --- Africa, Tropical --- Africa South of the Sahara --- Black Africa --- Sub-Sahara Africa --- Subsahara Africa --- Subsaharan Africa --- Tropical Africa --- Statistical services. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Political Economy --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Statistics --- E-books --- Economic development - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Statistics --- National income - Africa, Southern - Accounting --- Economic indicators - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Africa, Sub-Saharan - Economic conditions - Statistics --- Africa, Sub-Saharan - Statistical services

Nuer prophets : a history of prophecy from the Upper Nile in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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ISBN: 9780198279075 0198279078 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

Controle externe des finances publiques type latin
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ISBN: 2802708716 9782802708711 Year: 1993 Publisher: Bruxelles : Emile Bruylant,

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