In three key sectors of the economy, the country is experiencing a rejuvenating renaissance.

Technology is marvelous, and marvelously oversold. By Niall Ferguson.

The czars and commissars alike are long gone. Moscow has almost become a normal European city. By Norman M. Naimark.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University and author of Poor Numbers, the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and methodology both across countries and across time within a country, makes many empirical studies of African progress meaningless.