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Morten Jerven
  • Professor
    • Faculty of Landscape and Society
    • International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric
+4767231375
morten.jerven@nmbu.no
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Morten Jerven is Professor in Development Studies. He has a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and has published widely on African economic development, particularly on patterns of economic growth and on economic development statistics. His books are based on research in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Botswana.

  • Areas of work
    • Economic history
    • African economics
    • Development statistics
    • Economic growth patterns
    • International Relations
  • Publications
    My publications in Cristin

    Poor Numbers: How we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.

    Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995, Oxford University Press, 2014.

    Africa: Why Economists Got it Wrong, London; New York : Zed Books, 2015.

    Measuring African Development: Past and Present, Routledge, 2015.

    Statistical Tragedy in Africa? (with Deborah Johnston), Routledge, 2015.

  • Lecturing

    EDS 377 Foreign Policy (Course Leader)

    EDS 374 International Relations Theory

    EDS 305 Development Theory and Policy

    EDS 430 Environment and Development Studies for and by PhD Students

    ECN 352 Poverty

  • Projects & research

    Projects

    Why do states count? Evidence, Governance and Statistical Capacity in Economic Development
    The primary aim of this project is to discern what drives statistical capacity development, how the enhancement efforts of the IMF and the World Bank are conducted and how institutional interplay affect these improvement efforts.

    Areas of research

    Theme: 

    • Society
    • Economics
    • Development

    Research areas: 

    • History
    • Social sciences
    • Economics
  • Other

    Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong
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    Zed Books

    Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
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    Cornell University Press

    Economic Growth and Measurement Reconsidered in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, 1965-1995
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    Oxford University Press

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