Southern participation in economic development debates

Recommended readings on Southern Participation and Leadership in Economic Development Debates.

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Articles

Amarante, V., Burger, R., Chelwa, G., Cockburn, J., Kassouf, A., McKay, A., & Zurbrigg, J. (2021). Underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research. Applied Economics Letters, 1-6.

Angus, S. D., Atalay, K., Newton, J., & Ubilava, D. (2021). Geographic diversity in economic publishing. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190, 255-262. Data on GitHub: https://t.co/VYdIGlMJMr

Blicharska, M., Smithers, R. J., Kuchler, M., Agrawal, G. K., Gutiérrez, J. M., Hassanali, A., ... & Mikusiński, G. (2017). Steps to overcome the North–South divide in research relevant to climate change policy and practice. Nature Climate Change, 7(1), 21-27.

Das, J., Do, Q. T., Shaines, K., & Srikant, S. (2013). US and them: The geography of academic research. Journal of Development Economics, 105, 112-130.

Heckman, J. J., & Moktan, S. (2020). Publishing and promotion in economics: the tyranny of the top five. Journal of Economic Literature, 58(2), 419-70.

Hirvonen, K. (2020). This is US: Geography of evidence in top health economics journals. Health Economics, 29(10), 1316-1323.

Kaplan, L., Kuhnt, J., & Steinert, J. I. (2020). Do no harm? Field research in the Global South: Ethical challenges faced by research staff. World Development, 127, 104810.

Liverpool, L. Researchers from global south under-represented in development research. Nature.

McLean, R. K., & Sen, K. (2019). Making a difference in the real world? A meta-analysis of the quality of use-oriented research using the Research Quality Plus approach. Research Evaluation, 28(2), 123-135.

Meagher, K. (2021). Introduction: The Politics of Open Access—Decolonizing Research or Corporate Capture?. Development and Change, 52(2), 340-358.

North, M. A., Hastie, W. W., & Hoyer, L. (2020). Out of Africa: The underrepresentation of African authors in high-impact geoscience literature. Earth-Science Reviews, 208 (7451), 103262.

Nunn, N. (2019). Rethinking economic development. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 52(4), 1349-1373.

Oti, S. O., & Ncayiyana, J. (2021). Decolonising global health: where are the Southern voices?. BMJ Global Health, 6(7), e006576.

Books

Cooper, A., Batan, C., & Causa, L. K. (2021). The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies. Oxford University Press

Blogs

FP2P (2021). We Barely Know These Researchers from the South! Reflections on Problematic Assumptions about Local Research Collaborators. By Emery Mudinga

ISS Blog (2021) EADI ISS Conference 2021 | Some steps for decolonising international research-for-development partnerships. By Katarzyna Cieslik, Shreya Sinha, Cees Leeuwis, Tania Eulalia Martínez-Cruz, Nivedita Narain, Bhaskar Vira

OECD Development Matters (2021) How can research help Least Developed Countries achieve sustainable development? By Kunal Sen

On Think Tanks (2021). How have southern think tanks responded to the pandemic? By Vaqar Ahmed

World Bank Blog (2021). Evidence from the AEA RCT Registry on new research during Covid-19: Guest post by Jack Cavanagh, Maya Duru, Sabhya Gupta, Sarah Kopper, and Keesler Welch.

Institute of Development Studies, Opinion (2023) What is a “development” research project? Transforming ideas of development through development research by Peter Taylor, IDS Director of Research

Other

CODESRIA Bulletin (2020). Randomised Control Trials and Development Research in Africa. Special Issue Number 1, 2020.

Project Syndicate (2021). Economics Has Another Diversity Problem. By Dani Rodric.

Rodrik, D., & Greenspon, J. (2021). A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals. [Discussion paper]

Swiss Commission for Research Partnership with Developing Countries (1998). Guidelines for Research in Partnership with Developing Countries - 11 Principles.

The Conversation (2021). Reuters’ Hot List of climate scientists is geographically skewed: why this matters.

The Bridgespan Group (Report, 2021). Disparities in Funding for African NGOs. Mosun Layode, Jan Schwier, Siya Hayi-Charters, Maddie Holland, Soa Andrian.

 

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