POL447H
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT
Summer 2014
Professor Dickson Eyoh
120 Wetmore Hall
New College
300 Huron St
416.978-8288
dickson.eyoh@utoronto.ca
Meeting Time: MW 2-4PM
Seminar Location: SS 2101
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4PM or By Appointment
1.
Overview
This course explores some key issues in the study and practice of international development. It aims to
deepen appreciation of major substantive and theoretical debates taking place in the political economy
of development. It is organized in roughly four parts: overview of definitions of development and major
perspectives on the political economy of development and development practice in the post-WW2 era;
the emergence and evolution of neoliberal theory and development practice since the 1980s;
comparison of the development trajectories (South Korea, India, and Nigeria); and examination of
analysis and debate on a number contentious issues in the field today.
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Format
The seminar will be mainly driven by student participation and discussion. Emphasis during the seminar
will be placed on critical interpretation of assigned readings through the active participation of students
in classroom dialogue and debate. Useful participation will be informed by knowledge of the readings
and a willingness to share doubts as well as insights and certainties.
Each session will open with different students providing succinct summaries of one or two of the
required readings to lay the groundwork for discussion. These summaries will be for a maximum of 7
minutes. They will specify the key issues being addressed, the main arguments of the reading(s) and the
supporting evidence and offer an opinion on the strengths and limitations of authors’ analysis. This
presentation will be assessed as part of the participation mark and is separate from the weekly reaction
papers required of all.
I will assign the readings for presentation of summaries, strictly by alphabetical order. If your assignment
is inconvenient, it is your responsibility to arrange a swap with someone else. You will be penalized for
failing to present when you are supposed to.
Presentations begin in Session 4 (May 21) and first weekly reaction papers are due May 14 for
readings for Session 2.
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3.
Requirements:
The course requirements are as follows.
Attendance and Participation
20%
Steady but quiet attendance yields 40% of the total marks for this element. Active and informed
participation yields higher grades.
Weekly Reaction Papers:
20%
Weekly reaction papers of a maximum of one single-spaced page (about 350-300 words) summarizing
the arguments in two of the required readings for Sessions 2-11 (one reading for weeks 7-10). RPs are
to be posted on Blackboard by 9PM on the night before the relevant session. RPs are intended to
facilitate discussion in seminars. You can use them to ask for clarification of issues in the readings you do
not understand and to raise questions you think are important for the class to consider.
The first weekly response paper is due Session 2 (May 13).
The reactions papers will not be graded, but you will be penalized for failing to post them before the
relevant session and if they are not clearly written, coherent, and grammatically correct. You are
expected to read and reflect on the reaction papers of other seminar participants prior to class
meetings. This will inform you of the reactions of other class members to the readings.
Book Review (May 21)
20%
Write a critical review of 3-4 single spaced pages reflecting on the cogency of the main argument in a
sole or jointly-authored book in the list of recommended readings for any session. You can also, with my
prior approval, review a book on a theme related to the political economy of development not on the
recommended list. The emphasis is on concise, focused thought. You need to identify the author(s)
thesis, and respond critically to that thesis. Is the argument logically sound? Is it supported both by the
evidence that the author cites and by further data or knowledge of which you are aware? Does the book
pose an ‘important’ question in a challenging manner? Is the book well-organized and clearly written?
Does it suggest interesting new avenues for thought or research? Some of these questions, and perhaps
others, should guide your critical reaction.
Analytical Paper (June 2)
15%
Treat this assignment as the first part of your final paper (see below). The analytical paper will be a
maximum of 6 double-spaced pages. It will: (1) specify the issue you will write your paper on and why it
is important; (2) present your main hypothesis or argument; (3) sketch and briefly justify your intended
theoretical approach; (4) discuss the type of evidence you will use to sustain your analysis; and (5)
provide an annotated sample bibliography of a minimum of seven items (articles, books and/book
chapters) you will use for the paper. Secure my approval of your essay topic before beginning work on
this assignment.
Final Paper (June 18)
25%
Write a critical essay exploring an issue covered in the seminar. Feel free to use a case study or
comparison of cases to sharpen your discussion. Alternatively, you may write on a pertinent issue not
covered in the seminar (for example, neoliberalism and gender, neoliberalism and nature, neoliberalism
and informal economies, the emerging economies and development theory/practice, urbanization and
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development etc.). Either way, the paper will elaborate the conceptual and substantive issues laid out in
the analytical paper due June 2. Therefore, be sure to get my approval of your essay topic before you
start work on the analytical paper.
Maximum length: 16 double-spaced pages (approximately 4,000 words), exclusive of cover
page, notes and bibliography.
4.
Note on Plagiarism
i. “Plagiarism is a serious offence and will be dealt with accordingly. For clarification and information,
see the University of Toronto’s policy on Plagiarism at http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/usingsources/how-not-to-plagiarize”
ii. “Keep rough and draft work and hard copies of your essays before handing them in. Keep them until
the marked assignments have been returned.”
iii. “Normally, students will be required to submit their course essays to Turnitin.com for a review of
textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be
included as source documents in the turnitin.com reference database, where they will be used solely for
detecting plagiarism. Terms that apply to the University’s use of the turnitin.com service are described
on the turnitin.com web site.”
5.
Accessibility Needs
The University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations or have any
accessibility concerns, please visit http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/ as soon as possible.
Late penalty: 2 percentage points per day, including weekends. The penalty will be strictly
enforced.
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Readings for the Course
This syllabus identifies required readings for each topic, plus recommended readings. You should find
the latter useful in preparing your presentation and essay and following up on a subject which
particularly interests you. Obviously, you must read the required readings for each week if we are to
have a stimulating seminar. The required readings are in an e-reader which is on Blackboard. The
required readings are also available in electronic journals (e-journals) and (in the case of readings from
books) on reserve in the short-term loan section of Robarts Library.
The bookstore has been requested to stock copies of the following, which may be cheaper from
Amazon.ca:
Robert Bates, Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development 2nd ed. New York: W. W.
Norton, 2010.
Atul Kohli, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (e-book available through UT Library).
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Session 1(May 12) . Overview of the course
Content and organization of course, expectations, evaluation etc.
Session 2 (May 14): Meanings of Development
Required
Gustavo Esteve, “Development,” pp. 1-23 in Wolfgang Sachs, ed. The Development Dictionary:
A Guide to Knowledge as Power. 2nd ed. London: Zed Pres (Robarts Course Reserves)
Alan Thomas, 2000. “Meanings and Views of Development” pp. 23-48 in T. Allen and Alan Thomas, eds.
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Robarts Course
Reserves)
Recommended:
E. A. Brett. 2009. “Chapter 2: The Basic Assumptions of Development Theory,” in Reconstructing
Development Theory. London: Palgrave.
David Clark. 2006. “Capabilities Approach,” in D. Clark, ed. Edgar Companion to Development Studies.
Northampton, MASS: Edward Edgar Publishers. Highly recommended collection of overview essays.
David Crocker, 2008. Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability and Deliberative Democracy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mahbub ul Haq, “The Human Development Paradigm,” in Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and A.K.
Shiva Kumar, eds., Readings in Human Development (2003), 17-34.
Jomo, K. S ed. 2005. Pioneers of Development Economics: Great Economist of Development. London:
Zed.
Daniel Little, 2003. The Paradox of Wealth and Plenty: Mapping the Ethical Dimensions of Global
Development. Boulder: Westview Press, chaps 1, 4 and 5.
Martha Nussbaum, 2000. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Rob Potter et. al. 2012. Key Concepts in Development Geographies. London: Sage (esp. chapter 1 for
good introduction)
Wolfgang Sachs, 2001. “Development: The Rise and Decline of an Ideal,”
http://www.wupperinst.org/uploads/tx_wibeitrag/WP108.pdf
Amartya Sen, 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books. Intro. and chapter 1.
Amartya Sen, 1988. ``The Concept of Development` pp. 9-26 in H. Chenery and T. N. Srinivasan, eds.
Handbook of Development Economics. North Holland: Elsevier
UNDP, Human Development Report, 2005, pp. 15-48, http:IIwww.hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005.
United Nations. 2011. Millennium Development Goals Report 2011.
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf
Session 3 (May 19) No Meeting-Victoria Day
Session 4 (May 21): Political Economy of Development: Theory and Practice
Required
A. Leftwich, “Politics in Command: Development Studies and the Rediscovery of Social Science.” New
Political Economy 10, 4 (2005):573-607 (EJ)
R. Kanbur, 2002. “Economics, Social Science and Development,” World Development, 30:3:477-86
David Williams, 2011. International Development and Global Politics: History, theory and practice
London and New York: Routledge, pp. 11-46. (Robarts Course Reserves)
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Recommended:
Alice Amsden, 2007. Escape from Hell: The Developing World’s Journey from Heaven to Hell. Cambridge:
MIT Press.
Edward Brett, 2009. Reconstructing Development Theory: international inequality, institutional
reform and social emancipation. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Colin Leys, 1996. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. London: James Currey
D. Clark. 2005. “Introduction: Development Studies in the 21st Century,” pp. xxvi-xli in David Clark, ed.
Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Northampton, MASS: Edward Elgar.
David Ekbaldh, 2011. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American
World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press
K. Jamison and Charles Wilber, eds. 1996. Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment. 6th
ed. New York: McGraw Hill (useful selection of classics in the field).
Jomo K. S. ed. 2006. Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Thought Have Addressed
Development. London: Zed.
G. Rist. 2002. History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. 2nd ed. London: Zed Books.
D. J. Levin. 2000, `Political Economy and the Idea of Development``, Review of Radical Political Economy
13, 4:523-536
Rob Potter et. al. 2012. Key Concepts in Development Geography. London: Sage (Chapter 2: Theory and
Practice of Development)
John Rapley, 2007. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 2nd ed.
Boulder: Lynne Rienner, chap. 1 and 2.
James Scott, 19… Seeing Like a State: How Various Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have
Failed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
F. Stilwell, 2002. Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chap. 1-4.
J. Timmons Roberts and A. Hit, ed. 2007. Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on
Development and Global Change. Malden, Mass: Blackwell. (Parts 1 and 2 contain excepts from classical
and contemporary contributions to development theory and practice)
M. Staniland, What is Political Economy? New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985, chaps. 1 & 2.
Session 5 (May 26): Neoliberalism and Development Theory and Practice since 1980s 1
Required
David Harvey, 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, chapter
1 and 2, skim chapter 3. (On reserve and online)
David Williams, 2012. International Development and Global Politics: History, theory and practice.
London and New York: Routledge, pp. 91-124 (Robarts Course Reserves)
Recommended:
John Brohman, 1995. ``Economism and Critical Silences in Development Studies`` Third World Quarterly
26. 2:298-318 e-journal
T. Biersteker, “The ‘Triumph’ of Liberal Economic Ideas in the Developing World,” in Barbara Stallings
(ed.), Global Problems, Regional Responses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 174-96.
(excellent overview)
Christopher Colcough and James Manor, eds. 1991. States or Markets: Neo-Liberalism and
Development Policy Debates. Oxford: Claredon, especially introduction (excellent overview of
neoliberal/neo-classical turn in development economics).
D. Craig and D. Porter, Development Beyond Neoliberalism? Governance, Poverty Reduction and
Political Economy .London: Routledge, 2006 .
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D. Eyoh and R. Sandbrook, “Pragmatic Neo-liberalism and Just Development in Africa,” in A. Kohli et
al.(eds), States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the 21st Century. Tokyo: UNU Press, 2003.
B. Fine, “Neither the Washington nor the Post-Washington Consensus,” in B. Fine et al. Development
Policy in the 21st Century, pp. 1-27. London: Routledge, 2001
C. Gore, 2000. “The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries,”
World Development 28 (5): 789-804 e-journal.
R.N. Gwynne and C. Kay, 2000. “Views from the Periphery: Futures of Neoliberalism in Latin America.”
Third World Quarterly, 21 (1): 141-156 e-journal .
G. Harrison, Neoliberal Africa: The Impact of Global Social Engineering (London: Zed, 2010).
W. Larner, “Neoliberalism?” Environment and Planning: Society and Space 21:5, 2003, pp. 509-12.
N.H.I. Lipumba, Africa Beyond Adjustment. Washington, DC: Overseas Development Council, 1994.
(good critique of early neoliberal thinking)
M. Naim, 2000. “Fads and Fashions in Economic Reforms: Washington Consensus or Washington
Confusion?” Third World Quarterly 21 (3): 505-28 e-journal
Z. Onis & F. Senses, 2005. “Rethinking the Emerging Post-Washington Consensus,” Development and
Change, 36 (2): 263-90 e-journal
J. Pender, 2001. “From ‘Structural Adjustment’ to ‘Comprehensive Development Framework’:
Conditionality Transformed?” Third World Quarterly 22 (3): 397-411 e-journal.
L. Richardson, Contending Liberalisms in World Politics: Ideology and Power. Boulder: Lynne Rienner,
2001.
D. Rodrik, “Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion,” Journal of Economic
Literature 44:4, 2006, 973-87. e-journal
Narcis Serra and Joseph Stiglitz, ed. 2008. The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New
Global Governance. New York: Oxford University Press, chapters 1-4 by Stiglitz, Williamson and
Krugman.
Session 6 (May 28): Neoliberalism and Development Policy 2: Beyond the Miracle of the Market to
Institutions /Good Governance
Required
D. Acemoglu, S. Johnson & J. Robinson, “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development,”
American Economic Review 91:5 (2001), 1369-1401. e-journal.
E. van Waeyenberger, 2006. “From Washington to Post-Washington Consensus: Illusions of
Development,” pp. 21-45 in Jomo K. S. and Ben Fine, eds. The New Development Economics After the
Washington Consensus. London: Zed Press (Robarts Course Reserves)
M. Andrews, 2008 “The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators without Theory,” Oxford
Development Studies, 36 (4): 379-407 e-journal
Recommended:
D. Acemoglu, “Root Causes: A Historical Approach to Assessing the Role of Institutions in Economic
Development,” Finance & Development 40 (June 2003), 27-30. e-journal concise, clear statement.
J. Aron, “Growth and Institutions: A Review of the Evidence,” World Bank Research Observer 15:1, 2000,
pp. 99-135. e-journal
Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama, 2011. “The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the
Crisis,” Foreign Affairs March-April, pp.45-53. e-journal
D. Booth & F. Golooba-Mutebi, “Developmental Patrimonialism? The Case of Rwanda.” WP 16, Africa
Power and Politics Programme, ODI, London, March 2011.
N.F. Campos & J.B. Nugent, “Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence
from East Asia and Latin America.” World Development. 27:3, 1999, pp. 439-52. e-journal
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A. Diop et al., “Is Per Capita Growth in Africa Hampered by Poor Governance and Weak institutions?”
African Development Review 22:2 (2010), 265-75. e-journal
U. Engel & R. Olsen, eds., The African Exception: Notes on Governance in Africa. London: Ashgate, 2005.
William Easterly, 2006. “You can’t Plan a Market,” chapter 3 in Whiteman’s Burden: Why the West’s
Efforts to Aid the Rest have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good. New York: Penguin.
Peter Evans, 2004. `Development as Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and the
Potentials for Deliberations,` Studies in Comparative in International Development, 38 (4):30-52. ejournal
A.A. Goldsmith, “Africa’s Overgrown State Reconsidered: Bureaucracy and Economic Growth,” World
Politics 51:4 (1999), 520-46. e-journal
M. Grindle, “Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries,”
Governance, 17:4, 2004, pp. 525-48. e-journal
M. Grindle, 2007. “Good Enough Governance Revisited.” Development Policy Review 25(5):533-74. ejournal
S. Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990 (especially pp. 254-69).
G. Harrison, The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States. London: Routledge,
2004.
A. Kohli et al. (eds.) States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the 21st Century. Tokyo: UNU
Press, 2003. (good selection of essays relating to all regions of the developing world)
Jomo K. S. and Ben Fine, eds. 2006 The New Development Economics After the Washington Consensus.
London: Zed Press (good collection of critical essays on range of pertinent issues.)
I. Lienert, “Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results after 10 Years,” Finance and Development 35:2
10 (1998), 42-5.
James Mahoney, 2010. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative
Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chap.1 and 6.
J. Martinussen, Society, State and Market: A Guide to Competing Theories of Development, chapters 1718
Thandika Mkandawire, “Stylizing Accumulation in African Countries and the Role of the State in Policy
Making,” in M. Lundahl and B.J. Ndulu, eds., New Directions in Development Economics. London;
Routledge, 1996, pp. 323-51.
Thandika Mkandawire, 2012 ``Institutional Monocropping and Monotasking in Africa,” pp. 80-112 in A.
Noman et al. Good Growth and Governance in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press.
Thandika Mkandawire 2001. “Thinking about Developmental States in Africa,” Cambridge Journal of
Economics 25 (3): 289-314. e-journal
M. Moore, 1995. “Promoting Good Government by Supporting Institutional Development?” IDS Bulletin,
26 (2): 89-96. e-journal
B.J. Ndulu & S.A. O’Connell, 1999. “Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives 13(3): 41-66. e-journal
Douglass North, 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
R. Palan, “Recasting Political Authority: Globalization and the State,” in R. D. Germain, ed., Globalization
and its Critics. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.
A. Przeworski, 2004. “Institutions Matter?” Government and Opposition 527-40. e-journal
J. Rapley, 2007. Understanding Development, Chapter 6.
D. Rodrik,2000. “Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They Are and How to Acquire Them,”
Studies in Comparative International Development, 35 (3): 3-31 e-journal
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D. Rodrik, “Introduction”, in D. Rodrik, ed., In Search of Prosperity. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press,
2003.
J. Sach, 2003. “Institutions Don’t Rule: The Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income” NBER
Working Paper No. 9490 (www.nber.org/papers/w9490)
Nicolas Van de Walle, 2001 African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999.
Cambridge University Press.
World Bank, 2002 World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Session 7 (June 2): State-Making, State Capacity and Development
Required:
Robert Bates, 2010. Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development, 2nd Ed. New York:
W. W. Norton.
R. Doner, B. K. Ritchie and D. Slater, 2005. “Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental
States : Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia in Comparative perspective”, International Organization 59
(2):327-61 e-journal
Recommended:
**Deborah Brautigam, O-H Fjeldstad and Mick Moore, eds. 2008. Taxation and State-Building in
Developing Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Highly recommended; read one or two
case studies if you can make the time.
Miguel Centeno, 2002. Blood and Debt: War and Nation-State in Latin America. University Park: Penn
State University Press.
Pierre Englebert, 2000. “Precolonial Institutions, Post-colonial States and Economic Development in
Tropical Africa,” Political Quarterly Research 51 (1). e-journal
Pierre Englebert, 2010. Africa: Unity, Sovereignty and Sorrow. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Jeffrey Herbst, 2000. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons on Authority and Control.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 11-136.
Jeffrey Herbst, 1990. “War and the State in Africa,” International Security 14 (4):117-39 e-journal
Ann Leander, “Wars and the Un-Making of States: Taking Tilly Seriously in the Contemporary World”
http://www.copri.dk/publications/Wp/WP%202002/34-2002.pdf
Mike Moore, 1998. “Death Without Taxes: Democracy, State Capacity and Aid Dependence in the
Fourth World,” chap. 3 in chapter 4 in M. Robinson and G. White, ed. The Democratic Developmental
State: Political and Institutional Design. New York: Oxford University Press.
Mick Moore, 2001. “Political Underdevelopment: What Causes Bad Governance?” Public Management
Review, 3 (3): 385-418
G. Sørensen, “War and state making—why doesn’t it work in the Third World?” Failed States
Conference, 2001. http://www.ippu.purdue.edu/failed_states/2001/papers/Sørensen.pdf].
Hendrik Spryut, 2009 ``War, Trade and State Formation`, pp. 212-35 in Susan Stokes and Carles Biox, ed.
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. Online
Charles Tilly, 1990. Capital, Coercion and the Nation-State. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Charles Tilly, 1985. “War making and State Making as Organized Crime,” pp. 169-89 in P. Evans, D.
Rueschmeyer and T. Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Comparative Cases
Session 8 (June 4): Trajectories of Development: South Korea
Required
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Atul Kohli, 2004. State-Directed Industrialization: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global
Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters2-3 (scheme chapter 1).
Recommended
Ann Amsden, 1989. Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Dae-oup Chang. 2009. Capitalist Development in Korea: Labour, Capital and the Myth of the
Developmental State. London: Routledge.
Peter Evans, 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press.
Chalmers Johnson, 1987. “Political Institutions and Economic Performance,” pp. 136-164 Frederic Deyo,
ed. The Political Economy of East Asian Industrialism. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press
Dani Rodrik, 1994. “King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank in the East Asian Miracle,” pp. 13-38 in
Albert Fishlow, et al., Miracle or Design? Lessons from East Asian Experience. Washington, DC.: ODC
Policy Essay No. 11.
Robert Wade, 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian
Industrialization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed. 1999. The Developmental State. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press.
World Bank. 1993. The East Asian Miracle. New York: Oxford University Press.
Session 9 (June 9): Trajectories of Development: India
Required
Atul Kohli, 2004. State-Directed Industrialization: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global
Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapters 6-7.
Atul Kohli, 2006. ‘Politics of Economic Growth in India.” Economic and Political Weekly. Part 1: April 1,
pp. 1251-59 and Part 2: April 8, 1361-70. Download www.sas.upenn.edu/casi
Recommend:
P. Bardhan, 1994.The Political Economy of Development in India. Oxford: Blackwell.
V. Chibber, 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press.
Atul Kohli, 2012. Poverty amid Plenty in the New India. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press
R. Jerkins, 1999. Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press.
Session 10 (June 11): Development Trajectories: Nigeria
Required
Atul Kohli, 2004. State-Directed Industrialization: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global
Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Online chapters 8-9.
Recommended:
Paul Collier, C. Soludo and C. Pattilo, ed. 2008. Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-92
Tom Forrest. 1995. Politics and Economic Development in Nigeria. Boulder: Westview Press.
M. Iyaho and D, Iriahki, 2007. “Explaining African Economic Growth Performance,” chap. 18 in Benno
Ndulu et al, ed. The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, vol. 2. Country Case Studies
Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.
Peter Lewis. 2007. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Development in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press Chaps 5, 8 and 9.
Michael Peel, 2009. A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria’s Oil Frontier.
London: I.B. Taurus.
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David Smith, 2007. A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Usman Tar, 2009. Politics of Neoliberal Democracy in Africa: State and Civil Society in Nigeria. London: I.
B. Taurus.
Session 11 (June 16) Development-Security Nexus - Development Discourse in age of war on terror
Required:
Mark Duffield, 2001. Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Security and Development.
London: Zed Press, chap. 1-4.
Bjorn Hettne, 2010. “Development and Security: Origins and Future,” Security Dialogue 41 (1):31-52. ejournal
Jo Beall, T. Goodfellow, and J. Putzel, 2006. “Introductory Article: On the Discourse of Security,
Development and Terror,” Journal of International Development 18 (1):51-67. e-journal (special issue on
development and security after 9/11).
Recommended:
Lars Burr, S. Jensen and F. Stepputat, eds. 2007. Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of
Sovereignty and Securitization in South Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council
Paul Collier, 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are failing and what can be done
about it. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press (online or EB), especially chap. 2.
Paul Collier et al., 2003. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Mark Duffield, 2010. “The liberal way to Development and the Security-Development Impasse: Exploring
the Global Life-Chance Divide” Security Dialogue 41 (1): 25-76
Mark Duffield, 2007. ”Symphony of the Damned: Racial Discourse, Humanitarian Interventions and
Complex Emergencies,” Disasters 20 (3):173-193
Mark Duffield, 2007. Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples.
Cambridge: Polity Press
David Ekbaldh, 2011. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American
World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press (Chapter 8: New Developments: From Cold War to
War on Terror).
R. Emmers, 2007. “Securitization,” pp. 109-25 in A. Collins (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford:
Oxford University Press (Excellent survey essay).
Francois Fouinat. 2004. “A Comprehensive Framework for Human Security,” Conflict, Security and
Development 4 (3):289-97 (other useful essays in this special issue on security and development). . ejournal
Patrick Gowan, 2001. “Neoliberal Cosmopolitanism,” New Left Review 82 (Sept-Oct): 82-93 e-journal
Jude Howell, 2006. “The Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society,” Journal of International
Development 18 (1):121-35 e-journal or
Jude Howell et al. 2008. “The Backlash against Civil Society in the Wake of the Long War on Terror,”
Development in Practice 18 (1):82-93. e-journal
David Chandler, 2006. Empire of Denial: Politics of State-Building, Oxford: Pluto Press
Mary Kaldor, 2007. New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in the Global Era, 2nd ed. Palo Alto: Stanford
University Press.
Maria Stern and Jaokim Ojendal, 2010. “Mapping the Development-Security Nexus: Conflict, Complexity,
Cacophony, Convergence?,” Security Dialogue 41 (1):5-30. e-journal (special issue on securitydevelopment nexus revisited).
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Francis Stewart, 2004. “Development and Security,” Conflict, Security and Development 4 (3):261-88. ejournal.
Francis Stewart and E. V. K. Fitzgerald, eds. 2001. War and Underdevelopment, vol. 1. The Economic and
Social Consequences of Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Joseph Stiglitz, 1998. Towards a New Paradigm of Development: Strategies, Policies and
Processes”,Prebish/UNCTAD Lecture (download www.unctad.org/en/docs/prebisch9th.en.pdf.
A. Stoddard, A., and A. Harmer, 2006. “Little room to maneuver: The challenges to humanitarian action
in the New Global Security Environment,” Journal of Human Development 7 (1):23-41 e-journal
Necla Tshirgi, M. Lund and F. Mancini, ed. 2009. Security and Development: Searching for Critical
Connections. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Peter Uvin, 1999. Development Aid and Structural Violence: The case of Rwanda. Development 42
(3):49-56. e-journal
Peter Uvin, 1998. Aiding Violence, The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. West Hartford: Kumarian
Press.
Session 12 (June 18): Foreign Aid and Development
Required:
D.
Brautigam,
2010.
“China,
Africa
and
the
International
Aid
Architecture,”
http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/WORKING%20107%20%20PDF%
20E33.pdf (Working Paper No. 107).
Emma Mawdsley, 2012. “Chapter 4: Modalities and Practices: The Substance of (re)emerging
development partnerships,” in From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing
Development Landscape. London: Zed. (Robarts Course Reserves)
Ngaire Woods, 2008, “Whose Aid? Who’s Influence? China, Emerging Donors and the Silent Revolution
in Development Assistance,” International Affairs 84(6): 1205-21 e-journal
Recommended
Carol Adelman, 2007. “Foreign Aid: Advancing Security Interests,” Harvard International Review 29 (3):
62-67. e-journal
Carol Adelman, 2009. “Global Philanthropy and Remittances: Reinventing Foreign Aid,” Brown Journal of
World Affairs, 15 (2):23-33 e-journal
Alberto Alesina and David Dollar, 2000. “Who Gives Foreign Aid to Who and Why,” Journal of Economic
Growth 5: 33-66. e-journal
E. Aryeety et. al, eds. 2012. The Oxford Companion to the economics of Africa. Oxford Univ. Press (see
entries by P. Guillaumont, “Aid and Development”, Homi Kharas, “Private Aid to Africa” and N.
Ndung’u, HIPC Debt Relief in Sub-Saharan Africa)
Deborah Brautigam, 2009. The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Paul Collier, 2010. Conflict, Political Accountability and Aid. London: Routledge. Part 3
Paul Collier, 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are failing and what can be done
about it. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press (online or EB), especially chap. 1 and 7
William Easterly. 2001. Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the
Tropics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Arturo Escobar, 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, chap. 2.
William Easterly, 2006. Chapter 1: Planners versus Searchers,” in Whiteman’s Burden: Why the West’s
Efforts to Aid the Rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Penguin.
George Mavrotas, ed. 2010. Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. New
York: Oxford University Press.
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H. Kharas and J. Hermas, 2008. `The New Realities of Aid. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu
**Dambisa Moyo, 2009. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, pp. 2-68. Highly recommended polemic on the damaging effects of
systemic aid to Africa’s development.
Todd Moss, G. Petterson and N. van de Walle, 2008. “An Aid’s Institution Paradox? A Review Essay on
Aid Dependency and State-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa,” chap. 8 in W. Easterly, ed. Reinventing
Foreign Aid. Cambridge: MIT Press.
E. Reusse, 2002. The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third World Development Policies. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Roger Riddell, 2007. Does Foreign Aid Really Work?: Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.31-50, 355-80,
389-413.
Jeffrey Sachs, 2006. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times. New York: Penguin. Chap.
15 and 16.
Sara Walcott and Lawrence Haddad, 2011. ‘Reimagining Aid for the Next Ten Years: What do Donors
Think?,” IDS Bulletin 42 (5): 81-86. e-journal
Ngaire Wood, 2005. “The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid,” International Affairs 81 (2): 393-409 e-journal
Session 12 (June 18): Foreign Aid and Development
Required:
D.
Brautigam,
2010.
“China,
Africa
and
the
International
Aid
Architecture,”
http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/WORKING%20107%20%20PDF%
20E33.pdf (Working Paper No. 107).
William Easterly, 2006. Chapter 1: Planners versus Searchers,” in Whiteman’s Burden: Why the West’s
Efforts to Aid the Rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Penguin. (Robarts Course
Reserves)
Emma Mawdsley, 2012. “Chapter 4: Modalities and Practices: The Substance of (re)emerging
development partnerships,” in From Recipients to Donors: Em erging Powers and the Changing
Development Landscape. London: Zed.
Ngaire Woods, 2008, “Whose Aid? Who’s Influence? China, Emerging Donors and the Silent Revolution
in Development Assistance,” International Affairs 84(6): 1205-21 e-journal
Recommended
Carol Adelman, 2007. “Foreign Aid: Advancing Security Interests,” Harvard International Review 29 (3):
62-67. e-journal
Carol Adelman, 2009. “Global Philanthropy and Remittances: Reinventing Foreign Aid,” Brown Journal of
World Affairs, 15 (2):23-33 e-journal
Alberto Alesina and David Dollar, 2000. “Who Gives Foreign Aid to Who and Why,” Journal of Economic
Growth 5: 33-66. e-journal
E. Aryeety et. al, eds. 2012. The Oxford Companion to the economics of Africa. Oxford Univ. Press (see
entries by P. Guillaumont, “Aid and Development”, Homi Kharas, “Private Aid to Africa” and N.
Ndung’u, HIPC Debt Relief in Sub-Saharan Africa)
Deborah Brautigam, 2009. The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Paul Collier, 2010. Conflict, Political Accountability and Aid. London: Routledge. Part 3
Paul Collier, 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are failing and what can be done
about it. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press (online or EB), especially chap. 1 and 7
William Easterly. 2001. Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the
Tropics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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Easterly, William. 2009. “Can the West Save Africa,” Journal of Economic Literature 47 (2):373-447 (read
sections 4 and 5, pp. 420-433.)
Arturo Escobar, 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, chap. 2.
George Mavrotas, ed. 2010. Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. New
York: Oxford University Press.
H. Kharas and J. Hermas, 2008. `The New Realities of Aid. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu
**Dambisa Moyo, 2009. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, pp. 2-68. Highly recommended polemic on the damaging effects of aid
to Africa’s development.
Todd Moss, G. Petterson and N. van de Walle, 2008. “An Aid’s Institution Paradox? A Review Essay on
Aid Dependency and State-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa,” chap. 8 in W. Easterly, ed. Reinventing
Foreign Aid. Cambridge: MIT Press.
E. Reusse, 2002. The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third World Development Policies. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Roger Riddell, 2007. Does Foreign Aid Really Work?: Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.31-50, 355-80,
389-413.
Jeffrey Sachs, 2006. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times. New York: Penguin. Chap.
15 and 16.
Sara Walcott and Lawrence Haddad, 2011. ‘Reimagining Aid for the Next Ten Years: What do Donors
Think?,” IDS Bulletin 42 (5): 81-86. e-journal
Ngaire Wood, 2005. “The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid,” International Affairs 81 (2): 393-409 e-journal
Terry Lynn Karl, “Economic Inequality and Democratic Instability,” Journal of Democracy 11, 1 (2000):
149-156. e-journal
T. Landman, 1999. ‘Economic Development and Democracy: The View From Latin America,” Political
Studies, 47 (4). e-journal
Adrian Leftwich et. al. 2002. “Debate: Development and Democracy – A Contradiction in the Politics of
Economics,” New Political Economy 7 (2):269-281
Ellen Lust and Stephen Ndegwa, ed.(2012). Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of Reform.
Boulder: Lynne Rienner. (especially, Michael Bratton, “ Democracy-Governance Connection” and Peter
Lewis, “Democracy and Economic Performance”).
James Manor, 1998. “Democratization and the Developmental State,” chap. 4 in M. Robinson and G.
White, ed. The Democratic Developmental State: Political and Institutional Design. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Gerardo Munck, 2009. “Democracy and Development in a Globalizing World: Thinking About Latin
America from Within” Studies in Comparative International Development 44 (4): 337-58 e-journal
Ronaldo Munck, 2002. “Globalization and Democracy: A New “Great Transformation”?” ANNALS, AAPSS,
581, 10-21. e-journal
P. Oxhorn & P.K. Starr, eds. 1999. Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence?
Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999.
Dieter Rueschemeyer, E. Stephens, and J. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy,
Cambridge: Polity Press.
R. Sandbrook and J. Oelbaum, 1997. "Reforming Dysfunctional Institutions Through Democratization?
Reflections on Ghana", Journal of Modern African Studies, 3 (5): 603-46 e-journal
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James Scott and Carie A. Steele. 2011. “Sponsoring Democracy: The United States and Democracy Aid to
the Developing World, 1988–2001.” International Studies Quarterly 55 (1): 47-69 e-journal
Kurt Weyland, 1996. Democracy without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, pp.29-78.
Ashutosh Varshney, “Why Have Poor Democracies Not Eliminated Poverty? A Suggestion,” Asian Survey
40:5 (2000): 718-736 e-journal
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