Colonial Social Accounting
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
978-1-107-60128-4 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1953, this is Miss Deane's final report on her inquiry into the problems of social accounting in the two territories of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In her introduction, Miss Deane discusses the purpose of social accounting, and the accounting framework used for her study. Parts II and III review the economies of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland; methods of estimate are set out in appendixes. Part IV describes experiments in village social accounting, the problems involves, and the results obtained; and an appendix gives an annotated list of published and unpublished budget surveys made for the Central African region. Part V gives conclusions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-60128-4 (9781107601284)
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Content
Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. The purpose of social accounting; 2. The basic accounts; Part II. The Economy of Northern Rhodesia: 3. The colony and its people; 4. The structure of national output; 5. The social accounts; Part III. The Economy of Nyasaland: 6. The colony and its people; 7. The structure of national output; 8. The social accounts; Part IV. The Rural Communities: 9. Social accounting for primitive communities; 10. Collecting the data; 11. Experiments in village economic surveying 1: questions and answers; 12. Experiments in village economic surveying 2: combining the answers; 13. Village economic survey results; Part V. Conclusions: 14. The Central African economy; 15. The experiment reviewed; Appendices; Index.