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Working Papers

2019

1. African Economic Growth 1900-50: Historical National Accounts for British Colonial Africa
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network

2016

2. Capitalism in pre-colonial Africa
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network
3. Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: A review
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (1)
4. Patterns of Manufacturing Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonization to the Present
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History (2015) View citations (2)

2014

5. African Growth Miracle or Statistical Tragedy?: Interpreting Trends in the Data Over the Past Two Decades
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (6)

2013

6. Writing History Backwards or Sideways: Towards a Consensus on African Population, 1850-present
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (1)

2012

7. Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (4)
8. Moving Forward in African Economic History. Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (7)
   Also in African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network (2012) View citations (5)

2011

9. Comparing colonial and post-colonial output: Challenges in estimating African economic change in the long run
   Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History View citations (3)

2010

10. Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: prospects for growth in Africa: learning from patterns of long-term economic change
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

2006

11. Social Capital as a Determinant of Economic Growth in Africa
    Ratio Working Papers, The Ratio Institute View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2017

1. Does it pay to be poor? Testing for systematically underreported GNI estimates
   The Review of International Organizations, 2017, 12, (1), 1-38 View citations (11)

2016

2. Discrepancies: Why Do GDP Growth Rates Differ?
   Review of Agrarian Studies, 2016, 06, (01) View citations (1)
   Also in Journal, 2016, 6, (1), 63-80 (2016) View citations (1)
3. The Failure of Economists to Explain Growth in African Economies
   Development Policy Review, 2016, 34, (6), 889-893
4. Trapped between tragedies and miracles: Misunderstanding African economic growth
   Development Policy Review, 2016, 34, (6), 911-915

2015

5. GDP Revisions and Updating Statistical Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reports from the Statistical Offices in Nigeria, Liberia and Zimbabwe
   Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51, (2), 194-207
6. Statistical Tragedy in Africa? Evaluating the Data Base for African Economic Development
   Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51, (2), 111-115 View citations (24)
7. 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
   Business History Review, 2015, 89, (1), 202-204

2014

8. A West African experiment: constructing a GDP series for colonial Ghana, 1891–1950
   Economic History Review, 2014, 67, (4), 964-992 View citations (5)
9. Writing history backwards or sideways: towards a consensus on African population, 1850–2010
   Economic History Review, 2014, 67, (4), 907-931 View citations (35)

2013

10. Agricultural Statistics
    World Economics, 2013, 14, (1), 1-10 View citations (8)
11. Comparability of GDP estimates in Sub-Saharan Africa: The effect of Revisions in Sources and Methods Since Structural Adjustment
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, S16-S36 View citations (41)

2012

12. An unlevel playing field: national income estimates and reciprocal comparison in global economic history
    Journal of Global History, 2012, 7, (1), 107-128 View citations (22)

2011

13. Counting the Bottom Billion
    World Economics, 2011, 12, (4), 35-52 View citations (2)
14. Growth, Stagnation or Retrogression? On the Accuracy of Economic Observations, Tanzania, 1961–2001
    Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20, (3), 377-394 View citations (8)
15. The quest for the African dummy: explaining African post‐colonial economic performance revisited
    Journal of International Development, 2011, 23, (2), 288-307 View citations (33)

2010

16. Book Reviews
    Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2010, 11, (1), 161-172
17. Random Growth in Africa? Lessons from an Evaluation of the Growth Evidence on Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, 1965-1995
    Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46, (2), 274-294 View citations (13)

Books

2014

1. Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (15)