Ankush Agrawal, Vikas Kumar

Numbers in India's Periphery

The Political Economy of Government Statistics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exciting account of how government statistics in developing countries are social artefacts dynamically shaped by political and economic contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781108486729
• ISBN-10: 110848672X
• Artikelnr.: 59260794

Autorenporträt

Ankush Agrawal is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests are agricultural economics, economics of education, health economics and demography, and human development.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
List of maps
List of timelines
List of images
Acknowledgements
1. State and statistics
2. Nagaland and numbers
3. Cartographic 'mess'
4. Demographic somersault
5. Winning censuses
6. Flawed surveys
7. Data, development and democracy
Bibliography
Index.