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Popular Development Economics—An Anthropologist among the Mandarins

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ID6324906
AuthorsM Mcgovern (0000-0001-5379-1203, Yale University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume9
Issue2
Pages345-355
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592711000594
OpenAlexW2106721645
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited18

In 1997, I found myself newly arrived at Oxford University. I was taking a detour from my path to do research in West Africa thanks to a fellowship that funded a year of ancillary training before my fieldwork. Though studying anthropology, I was at St. Antony's College, where Paul Collier's Center for the Study of African Economies is located, and was in the same entering cohort as Collier's now-famous student Dambisa Moyo (assuming I would not be able to remember her first name, she offered, “it sounds kind of like ‘pizza

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Unique citing works10
Citations per year0,67
Citation span2011 - 2023 (13)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 10

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