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Statistical sources and African postcolonial economic history: notes from the (digital) archives
- Abstract:
- While interest in African economic history has grown rapidly in recent years, the continent’s post-colonial past remains understudied. This is at least in part because of the decline and fragmentation in the publication of economic statistics after decolonization, which has limited the type and breadth of quantitative analysis that can be undertaken. Nonetheless, this note argues that there are comparatively untapped post-colonial data sources that could enrich the study of the continent's economic history. The note surveys some of these sources and data repositories and provides advice, based on the author’s own experiences, on how to utilize them.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/20780389.2019.1671187
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Economic History of Developing Regions More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 143-154
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-09-18
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2078-0397
- ISSN:
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2078-0389
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English
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1069158
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2019-11-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Economic History Society of Southern Africa
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 Economic History Society of Southern Africa.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2019.1671187
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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