IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/rtmarc/rtm_213_0023.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

La mesure du développement : un domaine propice à l'innovation méthodologique

Author

Listed:
  • Alain Desrosières

Abstract

Statistical production in developing countries has led to methodological innovations. Structures that are less institutionalized than in the North have led to original research, involving exposures to knowledge in demography, economics, anthropology, history, sociology, and political sciences. In Northern countries, task specialization has turned statistical work into routines by confining it within standard methodologies. Developing countries have turned out to be places of significant inventiveness. Three examples are mentioned in the paper : the genesis of an original accounting system, the discussion of population and social surveys in Africa, and the dissemination of controlled randomized experiments.

Suggested Citation

  • Alain Desrosières, 2013. "La mesure du développement : un domaine propice à l'innovation méthodologique," Revue Tiers-Monde, Armand Colin, vol. 0(1), pages 23-32.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:rtmarc:rtm_213_0023
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=RTM_213_0023
    Download Restriction: free
    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/revue-tiers-monde-2013-1-page-23.htm
    Download Restriction: free
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cai:rtmarc:rtm_213_0023. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cairn.info/revue-tiers-monde.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.