Ankush Agrawal, Vikas Kumar

Numbers in India's Periphery (eBook, PDF)

The Political Economy of Government Statistics

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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
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108775519
• Artikelnr.: 70911548

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.