Africa's statistical tragedy

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL1, 2013, Pages

  Devarajan, Shantayanan ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Gross domestic product; Population; Poverty; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883554042     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12013     Document Type: Article

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