'Rebutting the 'Africa Rising' meme '
by Morten Jerven
Summary:
One of the most frequently repeated factoids supporting the Africa Rising meme
was that "seven out of ten of the fastest growing economies are in Africa",
from a data exercise in 2011 by The Economist.
In reality this is both a far less accurate and much less impressive statistic
than it sounds. Narratives on African economic development tend to be loosely
connected to facts, and instead are driven more by hype.
Most of the time we simply do not know enough to assert accurate growth rates.
There are also known biases and manipulations.
The evidence does not yet readily provide us with an answer. It is the job of
scholars to give tempered assessments that navigate between what is make-believe
and what passes as plausible evidence.
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http://naiforum.org/2014/09/rebutting-the-africa-rising-meme/
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