La mesure du développement: un domaine propice à l'innovation méthodologique

Alain Desrosières

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2013, vol. n°213, issue 1, 23-32

Abstract: Statistical production in developing countries has led to methodological innovations. Structures that are less institutionalized than in the North have led to original research, involving exposures to knowledge in demography, economics, anthropology, history, sociology, and political sciences. In Northern countries, task specialization has turned statistical work into routines by confining it within standard methodologies. Developing countries have turned out to be places of significant inventiveness. Three examples are mentioned in the paper : the genesis of an original accounting system, the discussion of population and social surveys in Africa, and the dissemination of controlled randomized experiments.

Keywords: Statistics; accounting; demography; innovation; development; randomised experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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