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Popular Development Economics—An Anthropologist among the Mandarins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2011

Mike McGovern
Mike McGovern
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Yale University
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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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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 345 - 355
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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