The readings marked 'required' must be read carefully prior to class. Students are encouraged to prepare short outlines based on reading notes before coming to class. The readings marked 'recommended' are suggested to supplement, deepen and expand the issues raised by the required readings. While students don't have to read them all before class, they are strongly encouraged to read what they can in order to fully realize the potential of this course.
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Course Overview |
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History | ||
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History: Colonialism and Imperialism Read the Study Questions |
Required
Sandercock, Leonie. "Commentary: Indigenous Planning and the Burden of Colonialism." Planning Theory and Practice 5, no. 1 (2004): 118–24.
RecommendedWilliams, Gavin. "Imperialism and Development: A Critique." World Development 6, no. 7–8 (1978): 925–36.
Acemoglu, Daron, et al. "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." The American Economic Review 91, no. 5 (2001): 1369–401. |
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History: Ideas and Ideologies of Progress and Modernization Read the Study Questions |
Required
Mazlish, B. "The Idea of Progress." Daedalus 93 (Summer 1963): 447–61.
Recommended
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Concepts | ||
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Concepts: Pro versus Anti–Development Read the Study Questions |
RequiredWallerstein, Immanuel M. "After Developmentalism and Globalization, What?" Social Forces 83, no. 3 (2005): 1263–78.
Recommended
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Concepts: The question of Ethics Read the Study Questions |
RequiredSanyal, Bish. "Globalization, Ethical Compromise and Planning Theory." Planning Theory 1, no. 2 (2002): 116–23. Gardner, Howard. "Compromised Work." Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 134, no. 3 (2005): 42–51.
Recommended
Bolan, R. S. "The Structure of Ethical Choice in Planning Practice." Journal of Planning Education and Research 3, no. 1 (1983): 23–34.
Marcuse, Peter. "Professional Ethics and Beyond: Values in Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association 42, no. 3 (1976): 264–74. |
Theories | ||
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Economic Development Theories: Neoclassical and Dependency Read the Study Questions |
Required
Gunder Frank, Andre. "The Development of Underdevelopment." In Imperialism and Development: A Reader. Edited by Robert I. Rhode. Monthly Review Press, 1971, pp. 4–16.
RecommendedKenny, Charles, and David Williams. "What Do We Know About Economic Growth?: Or Why Don't We Know Very Much?" World Development 29, no. 1 (2000): 1–22.
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Economic Development Theories: State Intervention and the East Asian Miracle Read the Study Questions |
Required
Recommended
Bhagwati, Jagdish N. "Export–Promoting Trade Strategy: Issues and Evidence." The World Bank Research Observer 3, no. 1 (1988): 27–57. Myint, Hla. Chapter 3 in "Peasant Exports and the Growth of the Money Economy." In The Economics of the Developing Countries. Hutchinson, 1965.
Baer, W. "Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations." Latin American Research Review 7, no. 1 (1972): 95–122. |
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Economic Development Theories: New Institutionalism and Law Read the Study Questions |
Required
Casson, Mark, et al. "Formal and Informal Institutions and Development." World Development 38, no. 2 (2010): 137–41.
RecommendedThe World Bank. "Legal and Judicial Reform: Observations, Experiences, and Approach of the Legal Vice Presidency / Legal Vice Presidency, the World Bank." 2002. Glaeser, Edward, and Andrei Shleifer. "Legal Origins." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 4 (2002): 1193–229. (
Djankov, S., R. La Porta, et al. "Courts: The Lex Mundi Project." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 2 (2003): 453–517.
———. "Development As Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and the Potentials of Deliberation." Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) 38, no. 4 (2004): 30–52. |
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Alternative Development Theories: Human Rights and Development Read the Study Questions |
Required
Sengupta, A. "Realising the Right to Development." Development and Change 31, no. 3 (2000): 553–78. Recommended
United Nations, General Assembly. "Declaration on the Right to Development." Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments. Volume 1, 1st Part, Universal Instruments. (41st sess: 1986–1987) (2002): 454–8. (
Marks, S. "The Human Right to Development: Between Rhetoric and Reality." Harvard Human Rights Journal 17 (2004): 137–68. (
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Development Theories Today in the Context of Global Crisis Read the Study Questions |
RequiredSabel, Charles, and Sanjay Reddy. "Learning to Learn: Undoing the Gordian Knot of Development Today." Challenge 50, no. 5 (2007): 73–92.
Stiglitz, J. E.
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Actors | ||
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Actors: State Read the Study Questions |
Required
Evans, Peter. "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization." World Politics 50, no. 1 (1997): 62–87.
RecommendedSen, A. "Public Action and the Quality of Life in Developing Countries." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 43, no. 4 (1981): 287–319.
Streeten, P. "Markets and States: Against Minimalism." World Development 21, no. 8 (1993): 1281–98.
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Actors: Markets and Marketization Read the Study Questions |
Required
Starr, Paul. "The Meaning of Privatization." Yale Law and Policy Review 6 (1988): 6–41. Birdsall, Nancy, and John Nellis. "Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatization." World Development 31, no. 10 (2003): 1617–33. (
Salvucci, F. "Reconstructing a Tragedy," The Boston Globe, July 21, 2006. Williams, Shirley. "The Seeds of Iraq's Future Terror," The Guardian, October 28, 2003. RecommendedEvans, P. "Introduction: Development Strategies Across the Public–Private Divide." World Development 24, no. 6 (1996): 1033–7. Bennell, P. "Privatization in Sub–Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s." World Development 25, no. 11 (1997): 1785–803. Gathii, James T. "Foreign and Other Economic Rights Upon Conquest and Under Occupation: Iraq in Comparative and Historical Perspective." University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 25, no. 2 (2004): 525–53. ( |
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Actors: Civil Society: NGOs and Social Movements Read the Study Questions |
RequiredRoy, Ananya. "Civic Governmentality: The Politics of Inclusion in Beirut and Mumbai." Antipode 41, no. 1 (2009): 159–79. Fisher, William F. "Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices." Annual Review of Anthropology 26 (1997): 439–64. (
Sanyal, B., and Vinit Mukhija. "Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery: A Case of Unforeseen Conflicts in Mumbai, India." World Development 29, no. 12 (2001): 2043–57. ( Recommended
Lemos, M. Carmen de Mello. "The Politics of Pollution Control in Brazil: State Actors and Social Movements Cleaning up Cubalas." World Development 26, no. 1 (1998): 75–87. Wade, R. "The Management of Common Property Resources: Collective Action as an Alternative to Privatization or State Regulation." Cambridge Journal of Economics 11 (1987): 95–106. (
Fung, Archon. "Associations and Democracy: Between Theories, Hopes, and Realities." Annual Review of Sociology 29, no. 1 (2003): 515–39. |
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Actors: Informal Economy and Illegality Read the Study Questions |
Recommended
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Actors: Global Actors and Institutions Read the Study Questions |
Required
The UN–Habitat Strategic Vision (May 2003). (
Vision Mumbai: Transforming Mumbai into a World–Class City (McKensey Report 2003). ( RecommendedThe Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nation General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, March 2009, available at http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/commission/financial_commission.shtml. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "A New Opportunity in Cancun's Failure," and "A Floundering WTO." UN Habitat. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, New York, 2005. Lozner, Stacy. "Diffusion Of Local Regulatory Innovations: The San Francisco CEDAW Ordinance And The New York City Human Rights Initiative." Colum L Rev 104, no. 768 (2004). |
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Multi–Level Planning and Scale Read the Study Questions |
RequiredRajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Limits of Law in Counter–Hegemonic Globalization: The Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley Struggle." Center for the Study of Law and Governance Working Paper 04–04. Jawaharlal Nehru University, May 2004. ( Blank, Yishai. "The City and the World." Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 44, no. 3 (2006). Recommended
Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "Planning As Anticipation of Resistance." Planning Theory 4, no. 3 (2005): 225–45. |
Key Issues | ||
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Key Issues: Governance of Complexity in a Globalized World Read the Study Questions |
RequiredWeiss, Thomas G. "Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance: Conceptual and Actual Challenges." Third World Quarterly 21, no. 5 (2000): 795–814.
Jessop, Bob. "The Rise of Governance and The Risks of Failure: The Case of Economic Development." International Social Science Journal 50, no. 155 (1998): 29–45.
Kaufmann, D., et al. "Governance Matters: From Measurement to Action." Finance and Development 37, no. 2 (2000): 10–3. ( RecommendedGrindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance Revisited." Development Policy Review 25, no. 5 (2007): 533–74.
UNDP. Reconceptualizing Governance (Discussion paper, 1997), pp. 1–20. (
Ackerman, John. "Co–Governance for Accountability: Beyond "Exit," and "Voice." World Development 32, no. 3 (2004): 447. |
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Key Issues: Urban–Rural Linkages and Tradeoffs Read the Study Questions |
Required
Jones, G. A., and Corbridge S. "The Continuing Debate About Urban Bias: The Thesis, Its Critics, Its Influence and Its Implications for Poverty–Reduction Strategies." Progress in Development Studies 10, no. 1 (2010): 1–18. ( Tacoli, C. "Rural–Urban Interactions; A Guide to the Literature." Environment and Urbanization 10, no. 1 (1998): 147–66. Recommended
Mukherjee, Anit, and Xiaobo Zhang. "Rural Industrialization in China and India: Role of Policies and Institutions." World Development 35, no. 10 (2007): 1621–34. |
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Key Issues: Migration and Development Read the Study Questions |
RequiredHaas, Hein de. Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of the Literature. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2007. ( Faist, Thomas. "Migrants As Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the Newest Round of the Migration–Development Nexus." Population, Space and Place 14, no. 1 (2008): 21–42. ( Levitt, Peggy. "Transnationalizing Community Development: The Case of Migration Between Boston and the Dominican Republic." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1997): 509–26. Iskander, N. "Innovating State Practice: Migration, Development, and State Learning in the Moroccan Souss." MIT IPC Working Paper: IPC–05–009, 2005. ( RecommendedOrozco, Manuel, B. Lindsay Lowell, et al. Transnational Engagement, Remittances and their Relationship to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, 2005. Kapur, Devesh. "United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and Group of Twenty–Four." Remittances: The New Development Mantra? G–24 Discussion Paper Series, no. 29. United Nations, 2004. ( Levitt, Peggy, and B. Nadya Jaworsky. "Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends." Annual Review of Sociology 33 (2007): 129–56. Fox, Jonathan, and Xochtil Bada. "Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico." Journal of Agrarian Change 8, no. 2–3 (2008): 435–61. Goldring, Luin. "Migrant Political Participation and Development: Re–Politicizing Development and Re–Socializing Politics." Paper Presented at SSRC Migration and Development Conference. 2008, Social Science Research Council, February, 28–March, 1. ( |
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Key Issues: Participatory Development Read the Study Questions |
Required
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. "Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy." Politics and Society 26, no. 4 (1998): 461–510. Mohan, G., and K. Stokke. "Participatory Development and Empowerment: The Dangers of Localization." Third World Quarterly 21, no. 2 (2000): 247–68. Krishna, A. "Partnerships Between Local Governments and Community–Based Organizations: Exploring the Scope for Synergy." Public Administration and Development 23, no. 4 (2003): 361–71. International Council on Human Rights. Local Self–Rule: Decentralization and Human Rights, 2000, pp. 1–35. ( Recommended
Chambers, R. "The Origins and Practice of Participatory Rural Appraisal". World Development 22, no. 7 (1994): 953–69. (
Charlick, Robert. "Popular Participation and Local Government Reform." Public Administration and Development 21 (2001): 149–57. ( Lavalle, Adrian G., Arnab Acharya, et al. "Beyond Comparative Anecdotalism: Lessons on Civil and Political Organizations Shape Participation in São Paulo, Brazil." World Development 33, no. 6 (2005): 951–61. (
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Key Issues: Corruption and Reform of Public Institutions Read the Study Questions |
Required
Wade, R. "How to Make Street Level Bureaucrats Work Better: India and Korea." IDS Bulletin 23, no. 4 (1992): 51–5.
Razafindrakoto, Mireille, and Francois Roubaud. "Are International Databases on Corruption Reliable? A Comparison of Expert Opinion Surveys and Household Surveys in Sub–Saharan Africa." World Development 38, no. 8 (2010): 1057–69. Vial, Virginie, and Julien Hanoteau. "Corruption, Manufacturing Plant Growth, and the Asian Paradox: Indonesian Evidence." World Development 38, no. 5 (2010): 693–705. Recommended
Paul, S. "Accountability in Public Service: Exit, Voice, and Control." World Development 20, no. 7 (1992): 1047–60. (
Ehrenhalt, A. "The Paradox of Corrupt yet Effective Leadership," The New York Times, September 30, 2002, p. A25. Rock, Michael, and Heidi Bonnett. "The Comparative Politics of Corruption: Accounting for the East Asian Paradox in Empirical Studies of Corruption, Growth and Investment." World Development 32, no. 6 (2004): 999–1017. ( Davis, J. "Corruption in Public Service Delivery: Experience from South Asia's Water and Sanitation Sector." World Development 32, no. 1 (2004): 53–71 (19). (
Gray, Cheryl, and Daniel Kaufmann. "Corruption and Development." Finance and Development (1998): 7. (PDF) Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Corruption, Legitimacy and Human Rights: The Dialectic of The Relationship." Connecticut Journal of International Law 14 (1999): 495. Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. "Corruption as Empowerment," The Hindu, August 11, 2001. |
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Key Issues: Trade, Outsourcing, and Labor Standards Read the Study Questions |
RequiredEdwards, Sebastian. "Openness, Trade Liberalization, and Growth in Developing Countries." Journal of Economic Literature 31, no. 3 (1993): 1358–93.
Khor, Martin. "Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements: Some Critical Elements and Development Implications." Third World Network, 2008. (DOC) Freeman, Richard B. "Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?" The Journal of Economic Perspectives: A Journal of the American Economic Association 9, no. 3 (1995): 15.
Kaplinsky, Raphael, Dorothy McCormick, et al. "The Impact of China on Sub–Saharan Africa." IDS Working Paper 291, November, 2007. RecommendedILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. 1998. Alston, Philip. "Core Labour Standards and the Transformation of the International Labour Rights Regime." European Journal of International Law 15, no. 3 (2004): 457.
UNCTAD. "Sao Paulo Consensus TD/410." United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2004): 1–11. (PDF)
Rodríguez–Garavito, César. "Global Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of Conduct and Anti–Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in Mexico and Guatemala." Politics and Society 33, no. 2 (2005): 203–333.
Hensman, Rohini. "Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy." British Journal of Industrial Relations 42, no. 4 (2004): 761–3. Kucera, David. "Core Labour Standards and Foreign Direct Investment." International Labour Review 141, no. 1–2 (2002). Palley, Thomas I. "The Economic Case for International Labour Standards." Cambridge Journal of Economics 28, no. 1 (2004): 21–36. Locke, Richard M., Fei Qin, et al. "Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 61, no. 1 (2007): 1–29. ( |
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Key Issues: Aid and Development Read the Study Questions |
Required
"Smart Power in the Name of Security." The Hill. By Rep. Joseph Crowley (D–N.Y.), Rep. Adam Smith (D–Wash.) and Claude Fontheim, July, 2009. RecommendedMinoiu, Camelia, and Sanjay Reddy. Development Aid and Economic Growth A Positive Long–Run Relation. IMF Working Paper No. 09/118, June, 2009. ( Banerjee, Abhijit. "Making Aid Work," (and the responses). Boston Review, July/August 2006. |
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Key Issues: Global Poverty Read the Study Questions |
Required
Reddy, Sanjay G., and Camelia Minoiu. "Has World Poverty Really Fallen?" Review of Income and Wealth 53, no. 3 (2007): 484–502. Reddy, Sanjay, and Antoine Heuty. "Global Development Goals: The Folly of Technocratic Pretensions." Development Policy Review 26, no. 1 (2008): 5–28. ( Mahadevia, Darshini. "Perspectives – NURM and the Poor in Globalising Mega Cities." Economic and Political Weekly 41, no. 31 (2006): 3399–401. RecommendedMinoiu, Camelia, and Sanjay Reddy. "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: What's Wrong with Existing Analytical Models?" Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 14, no. 3 (2006). |
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Key Issues: Security and Post–Conflict Development and Review Read the Study Questions |
RequiredRajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Invoking the Rule of Law in Post–Conflict Rebuilding: A Critical Examination." William and Mary Law Review 49, no. 4 (2008): 1345. Andersen, R. "How Multilateral Development Assistance Triggered The Conflict in Rwanda." Third World Quarterly 21, no. 3 (2000): 441–56. Bello, Walden. "The Rise of the Relief and Reconstruction Complex." Journal of International Affairs 59, no. 2 (2006): 281–96. (
Natsios, Andrew S. "The Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development." Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College 35, no. 3 (2005): 4–20. Gennip, Jos Van. "Post–Conflict Reconstruction and Development." Development 48 (2005): 57–62. Davis, Diane E. "Non–State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World." Contemporary Security Policy 30, no. 2 (2009): 221–45. RecommendedSchadlow, Nadia. "Root's Rules: Lessons from America's Colonial Office." The American Interest 2 (2007): 92–102. Berger, M. "From Nation–Building to State–Building: The Geopolitics of Development, The Nation–State System and The Changing Global Order." Third World Quarterly 27, Special Issue (2006): Entire Issue. U. S. Joint Forces Command. Military Support to Stabilization, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction Operations Joint Operating Concept (JOC). Suffolk, U. S. Joint Forces Command, 2006, p. 45. (U260 .J741 2006) (DOC)
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