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Record W2472396454 · doi:10.1057/9780230236929_6

What is Happening in “Poor” Africa?

2009· book-chapter· en· W2472396454 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Katsumi Hirano

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIncome, Poverty, and Inequality
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPovertyDevelopment economicsQuarter (Canadian coin)Per capitaDeveloping countryHappeningPopulation growthEconomic growthPoverty reductionPopulationEconomicsPolitical sciencePer capita incomeGeographyHistorySociologyDemography

Abstract

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Sub-Saharan Africa (referred to hereafter simply as Africa) has been the focus of much debate on poverty and development since the last quarter of the previous century, and has also been the main arena of ODA policies and poverty reduction. Therefore, there has been a great deal of effort on the part of development economics to elaborate Africa’s underdeveloped economies, and this has evolved into a very influential discipline based heavily on case studies of Africa. 1 Nevertheless, this great accumulation of academic knowledge has largely failed to bring about any practical economic growth for the people of Africa, and the problem of poverty has grown more serious. Rapid population growth without economic growth has led to a decline in per capita GDP, which stood at US$505 in 2002, almost half that of 1980. Far from developing, Africa has been regressing, despite the input of unprecedentedly large volumes of ODA. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.009
Scholarly communication0.0060.011
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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