Morten JervenMorten Jerven is the author of Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (2013); Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015); and The Wealth and Poverty of African States: conomic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century (2022). Jerven holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, is Professor of Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and is Visiting Professor in Economic History at Lund University. Read More Read Less