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                    Bill Gates @BillGates
                  
                  
                    
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                      Dec 12, 2013
                    
                  
                
                - Curated in The best books I read in 2013
 
Jerven, an economist, spent four years digging into how African nations get their statistics and the challenges they face in turning them into GDP estimates. He makes a strong case that a lot of GDP measurements we thought were accurate are far from it. But as I argue in my longer review, that doesn’t mean we know nothing about what works in development.
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