ABSTRACT While interest in African economic history has grown rapidly in recent years, the continent’s post-colonial past remains understudied. This is at least in part because of the decline and fragmentation in the publication of economic statistics after decolonization, which has limited the type and breadth of quantitative analysis that can be undertaken. Nonetheless, this note argues that there are comparatively untapped post-colonial data sources that could enrich the study of the continent's economic history. The note surveys some of these sources and data repositories and provides advice, based on the author’s own experiences, on how to utilize them.

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统计来源和非洲后殖民时期的经济历史：（数字）档案的注释

摘要尽管近年来对非洲经济历史的兴趣迅速增长，但非洲大陆的后殖民时代仍然未得到充分研究。这至少部分是由于非殖民化之后经济统计数据的出版数量的减少和分散，限制了可以进行的定量分析的类型和广度。但是，本说明认为，尚有相对未开发的后殖民数据源可以丰富对非洲大陆经济史的研究。该说明对其中一些来源和数据存储库进行了调查，并根据作者的经验提供了有关如何使用它们的建议。