Class #1, August 31
Bardhan, Pranab. 2005. "History,
Institutions, and Underdevelopment." Chapter 1 in P. Bardhan, Scarcity,
Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics
of Development, MIT
Press. link
Human Development Report
2005, Chapter 1: "The State of Human Development."
link
Class #2, September 7
World Bank. 2006. Poverty Manual. Chapters 2 (Measuring Poverty) and 4 (Measures of Poverty)
link
Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2007.
"China's (uneven) progress against poverty." Journal of Development Economics 82(1): 1-42.
link
Class #3, September 14
World Bank. 2006. Poverty Manual. Chapter 6 (Inequality)
link
World Bank. 2005. Zambia: Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment
Human development Report, Africa Region. Chapter 5 (Risk, vulnerability, and Poverty)
link
Class #4. September 21, 2007.
Targeting of social programs
Coady, David, Margaret Grosh, John Hoddinott. 2002. "The Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of Experience and Lessons." Washington D.C.: The World Bank.
link
Class #5. September 28, 2007.
Targeting and social programs (continued)
Ravallion, Martin. 2003. "Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-offs and Policy Options", World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3048.
link
Conning Jonathan and Michael Kevane. 2002. "Community-based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets: A critical review". World Development 30(3):375-394.
Class #6. October 5, 2007. Development and the Environment.
World Resources Institute. 2005. Four Steps to Greater Environmental Income. Chapter 4 in World Resources 2005, The Wealth of the Poor, Washington.
link
Class #7. October 12, 2007. WDR 2008, Agriculture for Development.
World Bank. 2007. "Agriculture for Development: Overview." World Development Report 2008
link
Critiques of the WDR:
Norwegian Church Aid. 2007. "Deadly Combination: The role of southern
governments and the World bank in the rise of hunger." Read Chapter 1.
link
Heinrich Boll Foundation and Misereor. 2007. "Slow Trade -- Sound
farming: A multilateral framework for sustainable markets in
agriculture." Read pp. 9-13.
link
Classes #8 and 9 - October 19 and 26, 2007. Impact analysis of development projects.
Ravallion, M. "The mystery of the vanishing benefits: An introduction to impact evaluation."
World Bank Economic Review , Sep, 2001, V15(N1):115-140. link
Kim, J., H. Alderman, and P. Orazem. 1999."
Can Private School Subsidies Increase Enrollment for the Poor? The Quetta Urban Fellowship Program.
The World Bank Economic Review , Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 443-65 link
Class # 10 - November 2, 2007. Access to Financial Services in Development
Roodman, David and Uzma Qureshi.
"Microfinance as Business" Center for Global Development Working paper 101,
October 2006.
link
Class # 11 - November 9, 2007. Migration and Development
The World Bank. Global Development Prospects 2006, in particular chapter 3. link
David J.McKenzie. "Beyond Remittances:
The Effects of Migration on Mexican Householdâ", in International Migration,
Remittances, and the Brain Drain
Edited by Maurice Schiff and Caglar Ozden, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan link
Class # 12 - November 16, 2007. Decentralization
Bardhan, Pranab. Decentralization of Governance and Development The Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Volume 16, Number 4, 1 November 2002, pp. 185-205(21). link
Class # 13 - November 30, 2007. Industrialization strategies, trade, and exchange rate policies
Finance and Development, September 2007.
link
"China's Rebalancing Actâ", pp. 27-31
"Why Real Exchange Rates?" (optional)
Class #14 - December 7, 2007. Debate on Foreign Aid
Nicholas Kristof. 2006. "Aid: Can it work?" link
Michael Clemens. 2007. "Smart Samaritans: Is there a third way in the development debate?"
link
Jeffrey Sachs. 2006. "How aid can work?" link
William Easterly. 2007. "The white man's burden". link