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Course overview

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Presentation, citations, bibliography and plagiarism

Word count and penalties

Late submission of coursework

Using SOAS Library for Development Studies - The Essentials

Instructions - how to submit your essay

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Lecture 1 - What is the Political Economy of Development pt 1

CORE READING: Harriss, J. (2002) ‘The Case for Cross-Disciplinarity Approaches in International Development’, World Development 30 (3), pp.487-496.

CORE READING :Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. (2013) Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy AdvicJournal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 27, no. 2: 173-192.

CORE READING: Milonakis, Dimitris and Ben Fine (2009). “Introduction”, From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory, London: Routledge. (pgs. 1-10)

CORE READING: Leys, Colin (1996). Ch. One, The Rise and Fall of Development Theory, London: James Curry. (pgs. 1-44)

Solomon, M. Scott (2010). “Critical Ideas in Times of Crisis: Reconsidering Smith, Marx, Keynes, and Hayek”, Globalizations, 7, 1–2: 127–35.

Recommended and Further readings

Lecture slides--Introductory lecture

Lecture 2 - Measuring Development pt 2

CORE Reading-M. McGillivray (1991) ‘Redundant Composite Development Indicator,’ World Development 19 (10), pp.1461-1468

CORE READING M Ravallion 1997 ‘Good and Bad Growth: The Human Development Reports’, World Development, 25, 5 pps.631-638

CORE READING Clark (2005) reading

CORE READING- Ravallion (2010) Mashup Indicators of Development, World Bank Research Paper 5432

Non-Core/recommended reading; Andrew et al (2010)

Non-core/recommended reading--Birdsall et al (2015) The Median is the Measure

L. Pritchett and L. Summers (1996) ‘Wealthier is Healthier’, Journal of Human Resources 31 (4), pp.841-866

recommended and further readings

Lecture slides

Lecture 3 - Whose development? -Inequality within countries

Inequality and Development slides

Recommended and additional readings

Wilson Francis (2011) Historical Roots of Inequality in South Africa, in Economic History of Developing Regions, 26:1, 1-15

Wilson reading

Seguino Stephanie and Were Maureen (2014) Gender, Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Journal of African Economies (2014) 23 (suppl 1): i18-i61

Seguino reading

Palma Gabriel (2011) ‘Homogeneous Middles vs. Heterogeneous Tails, and the End of the ‘Inverted-U’: It's All About the Share of the Rich’, in Development and Change, Issue 42, No. 1 87-153.

Palma 2011 reading

Lecture 4 - Whose Development? distribution across countries

Lecture 4 slides - Global inequality - Oya

Recommended and additional readings

Milanovic, B. (2012). ‘Global Income Inequality in Numbers: in History and Now’. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper n. 6259.

Sutcliffe B. (2005) ‘A Converging or Diverging World?’ UN DESA Working Paper No. 2.

Kenny C. (2005) ‘Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging’ World Development 33 (1): 1-19.

Elephant chart

Lecture 5 - Poverty-– what is it, who are the poorest, how and where has it been reduced?

Recommended and additional readings

World Bank (2000), World Development Report, 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, Washington D.C. Chapter 1

Amsden, A. (2012). ‘Grass Roots War on Poverty’, World Economic Review, 1: 114-131

Sender reading in Chang

Poverty Slides

Lecture 6--Key ideas in development economics- Neoclassical economics/neoliberaslism

Recommended and additional readings

NL Slides_Lec 6

Lecture 7-Key ideas in development economics- Lewis and Kalecki on structural transformation and economic growth

Todaro and Smith reading

Ghosh on Kalecki reading

Meier and Rauch reading

Recommended and further readings

Storm (2015) further recommended reading (not on the list)

Lecture slides structural transformation and economic development

Lecture 8--Key ideas in development economics--Marxist and structuralist

Recommended and additional readings

Lecture 9-Key ideas in development economics: new institutionalism, post-Washington Consensus

Bates, R. (1995). Social Dilemmas and Rational Individuals: An assessment of the new institutionalism, in in Harriss J., Hunter, J. and Lewis, C. eds. New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. London: Routledge.

Khan, M. (2007) Governance, Economic Growth and Development since the 1960s