A history of economic growth in Africa: why measurement matters

In my book - Poor Numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it – I argued that we know less than we would like to think about growth and development in Africa based on the official numbers. I showed how the problem starts with the basic input – information. The fact of the matter is that the great majority of economic transactions whether in the rural agricultural sector and in the medium and small scale urban businesses goes by unrecorded.