Attempt to address @DinaPomeranz's question continues. Do we actually have a ‘northern’ dev econ vs ‘global south’ dev econ divide? 1/n
Global south researchers are invisible socially, not reaching mainstream econ dev journals. Several reasons for this: old academic colonialism (@arjun_jayadev), lack of resources (@juvaria), language barrier and the neglect of heterodox scholarship (@ingridharvold – me too!) 2/n
On the latter, there's the demand side explanation too. It might be that global south researchers don’t find the work being done for the western journal valuable & insightful. Vice versa, these researchers don't find that their work is recognised & respected (@arjun_jayadev) 3/n
This makes absolute sense considering the point made by @AHAkramLodhi here
The problem persists even within studies working with growth...
and more here...
I guess the plot thickens when expanding on the ‘northern dev’ econ vs ‘global south’ dev econ divide... 4/n
What if we are witnessing the relative “disvaluation of the traditional 'big' development or what is now often referred to as 'macro growth'”, as discussed by @pseudoerasmus in this thread?
And what if this tendency is reinforced by the funding allocation?
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In nutshell, I’d argue that people from the global south are more likely to study questions and use methods that have become excluded from the mainstream. What 's more, mainstream approaches are becoming more and more expensive. 6/n
These tendencies are very much real, and will not go away so soon. The drawback is that they are most likely lead to further polarisation within dev econ…. 7/7
