The Absent Voices of Development Economics
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-does-the-global-north-dominate-development-economics-by-arvind-subramanian-and-devesh-kapur-2021-03
“To preempt the Global North’s monopoly of knowledge creation in development economics requires, first, recognizing that the Global South has ceded dominance as much as the North’s elite institutions have appropriated it. Many developing countries have severely undermined their own universities and knowledge-production systems both through lack of funding and political interference, with the latter being especially pernicious in the social sciences. Unless they remedy this, they will continue to suffer the consequences of the global imbalance”.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-does-the-global-north-dominate-development-economics-by-arvind-subramanian-and-devesh-kapur-2021-03
“To preempt the Global North’s monopoly of knowledge creation in development economics requires, first, recognizing that the Global South has ceded dominance as much as the North’s elite institutions have appropriated it. Many developing countries have severely undermined their own universities and knowledge-production systems both through lack of funding and political interference, with the latter being especially pernicious in the social sciences. Unless they remedy this, they will continue to suffer the consequences of the global imbalance”.