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Handbook

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Seminar exercises folder

Assessment

Assignment 1 (AS1) 2024/25

ICC Development Studies 15IC-UDVS AS1 Brief 2024

Assignment 2 (AS2) 2024/25

ICC Development Studies 15IC-UDVS AS2 Brief 2024

Assignment Cover Sheet 2024-25

IFCELS Referencing Handbook

ICC Assignment Assessment Descriptors

In text references

Resources

Gapminderworld - Dollar Street

Glossary of development terms

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) website

International Labour Organisation (ILO) website

International Monetary Fund (IMF) website

UN Women website

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) website

World Bank website

English for Academic Purposes

Week 1: What is international development?

How the youth boom in Africa will change the world - New York Times interactive

Reading 1 - Should we continue to use the term “developing world”?

Reading 2 - Sender and Pincus, `Capitalism and development'

Lecture slides

Week 1 quiz

Reading - Makki, `Reframing development theory'

Week 2: Decolonisation and development

Reading 1 - Craggs, `Development in a global-historical context'

Lecture slides

Quiz!

India's first Five-Year Plan

Week 3: Globalisation and development

Reading - Kiely, `Global shift - industrialisation'

Reading - Chang, `Trade and industrialisation'

Lecture slides

Video: `How Thailand became an auto export giant'

Quiz!

Week 4: Rise of the Asian giants

Reading 1 - Bromley, `Emerging markets and the advanced economies'

Reading 2 - Kaplinsky, `The impact of China and India on the developing world'

Lecture slides

Quiz!

Financial Times: End of the Chinese miracle?

The village and the girl

Better and better? A comment on Hans Rosling

Week 5: Agrarian change and rural poverty

Reading 1 - Heinemann, `Rural poverty'

Reading 2 - Hall et al., `Land reform'

Lecture slides

Quiz!

Video: Growing Business for Senegalese Farmers

Video: Senegal agribusiness

Week 6: Urbanisation and the `social question'

Reading 1 - Rakodi, `Prosperity or poverty?'

Reading 2 - Chant, `The informal economy in cities of the South'

Lecture slides

Quiz!

Video: Organising for change: workers in the informal sector

Week 7: Gender, social reproduction and rights

Reading - Beazley and Desai, `Gender and globalisation'

Reading 2 - Unnithan-Kumar, `Motherhood, mortality and health care’

Lectures slides

Video: Left in the Lurch: Tales of Women Workers in Delhi's Informal Sector

Video - Who cares: Unpaid care work, poverty and women's / girl's human rights

Week 8: States, nationalism and development

Reading - Harriss, `Nationalism and development'

Reading 1 - Kohli, `State and Development'

Lecture slides

Quiz!

Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID)