Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954
Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954
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衡量非洲过去的未来挑战：估算 1891-1954 年黄金海岸 GDP 的经验教训
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2012
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Morten Jerven
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作者：
Morten Jerven
最近，对非洲长期发展的研究激增。为了使这一研究议程及其理论富有成果，对经济变化进行一致的估计至关重要。本文提供了一个新的加纳国内生产总值时间序列，1891年至1954年。这一系列数据暗示了从19世纪末到20世纪60年代的一段持续的经济扩张时期。这意味着对撒哈拉以南非洲经济增长历史的一些普遍真理的修正。文件讨论了为其他非洲经济体建立殖民和后殖民时期历史国民账户的潜力。
There has been a recent surge in research on long term African development. For this research agenda to be fruitful and its theories, it is crucial to have consistent estimates of economic change. This paper contributes with a new GDP time series for Ghana, 1891-1954. The series implies a sustained period of economic expansion from the late 19th century into the 1960s. This suggests a revision of some prevalent truths about the history of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper discusses the potential of creating historical national accounts for other African economies across the colonial and post-colonial period.