Public Policy C253 / ARE C253
Fall 2007
Credits: 3 units
Offered by: Alain de
Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet.
Time: Friday 10-12am
Place: Echeverry Hall 3105
Enrollment: Maximum of
30 students in Masters and Ph.D. degrees.
Prerequisites: Microeconomics and econometrics at the
MasterÕs level, or consent of instructors.
Office hours:
Alain: Friday 4:00-5:00 pm, Giannini Hall 211
Elisabeth:
Friday 4:00-5:00 pm, Giannini Hall 213
Contact addresses:
Alain: alain@are.berkeley.edu
Elisabeth: Sadoulet@are.berkeley.edu
Three quantitative case
studies: to be developed by teams of two
Three policy notes:
individual
Final examination:
closed books
Contributions to course
grade:
1. Three quantitative
case studies: 3x15 = 45% of grade
2. Three policy notes:
3x5 = 15% of grade
3. Final examination:
40% of grade
Reading
list (subject to change)
Assigned
readings marked *
1. Policy issues in development
*Bardhan, Pranab. 2005. ÒHistory,
Institutions, and Underdevelopment.Ó Chapter 1 in P. Bardhan, Scarcity,
Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics
of Development, MIT
Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262524295chap1.pdf
*Human Development Report
2005, Chapter 1: ÒThe State of Human Development.Ó
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/pdf/HDR05_chapter_1.pdf
David Lindauer and Lant Pritchett. 2002.
ÒWhatÕs the Big Idea? The Third
Generation of Policies for Economic GrowthÓ. pp. 1-39. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/economia/v003/3.1lindauer.pdf
2. Poverty assessment
*World Bank. 2006. Poverty Manual
*Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2007.
ÒChina's (uneven) progress against poverty.Ó Journal of Development
Economics
82(1): 1-42. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/all.html#f
3. Inequality and vulnerability assessment
World Bank. 2006. Poverty Manual
World Bank. 2005. Zambia: Poverty and
Vulnerability Assessment.
Human development Report, Africa Region. http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0001457/PVA_Zambia_June2005b.pdf
4. Human development and social
protection programs
Cohen, Joel, and David Bloom. 2005.
ÒCultivating Minds: Educating all Children is not only Urgent but also Feasible
Within the Next Few Years.Ó Finance and Development 42(2): 8-14
Strauss, John, and Duncan Thomas, 1998,
ÒHealth, Nutrition, and Economic DevelopmentÓ, Journal of Economic
Literature,
36(2): 766-817.
5. Targeting of social programs
Coady, David, Margaret Grosh, John
Hoddinott. 2002. ÒThe Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries: Review of
Experience and Lessons.Ó Washington D.C.: The World Bank.
http://www1.worldbank.org/sp/safetynets/Primers/Targeting_paper.pdf
Ravallion, Martin. 2003. ÒTargeted Transfers in Poor Countries:
Revisiting the Trade-offs and Policy OptionsÓ, World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper 3048. link
Conning Jonathan and Michael Kevane.
2002. ÒCommunity-based targeting
mechanisms for social safety nets: A critical reviewÓ. World Development 30(3):375-394.
6. Environment and development policy
World Resources Institute.
2005. Four Steps to Greater Environmental Income. In World
Resources 2005, The Wealth of the Poor, Washington, DC: World Resources
Institute: http://pdf.wri.org/wrr05_ch4.pdf
UNISFERA. 2004. Payments for
Environmental Services: A survey and assessment of current schemes. Montreal. http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/ECONOMY/PES-Unisfera_en.pdf
7. Agriculture for Development: WDR 2008
Joachim von Braun, (2005) The
World Food Situation, International Food Policy Research Institute: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/agm05/jvb/jvbagm2005.pdf
DIFID. 2005. Growth and
Poverty Reduction: The Role of Agriculture. London: UK Department for
Economic Development: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/growth-poverty-agriculture.pdf
Hazell,
Peter, Colin Poulton, Steve Wiggins, and Andrew Dorward. ÒThe Future
of Small Farms: Synthesis PaperÓ. Background paper for the WDR 2008,
November 2006 pdf
Reardon,
Thomas and Julio A. BerdeguŽ. The Retail-Led Transformation of Agrifood Systems
and its Implications for Development Policies. Background paper for the WDR 2008, November 2006 pdf
8 and 9. Impact analysis of development projects
Ravallion, M. ÒThe mystery of the
vanishing benefits: An introduction to impact evaluation.Ó 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
World Bank site on Impact Evaluation: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/impact/index.htm
10. Microfinance institutions
Morduch, J. 1999. "The Microfinance
Promise." Journal of Economic Literature, V37 N4:1569-1614. Jstor
Roodman, David and Uzma Qureshi.
ÒMicrofinance as BusinessÓ. Center for Global Development Working paper 101,
October 2006. link
11. Migration and development
The World Bank. Global Development
Prospects 2006, in particular chapter 3. link
David J.McKenzie. ÒBeyond Remittances:
The Effects of Migration on Mexican HouseholdÓ, in International Migration,
Remittances, and the Brain Drain
Edited by Maurice Schiff and Caglar Ozden, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan link
12. Decentralization and local
governance
Bardhan,
Pranab. Decentralization of Governance and Development The Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Volume
16, Number 4, 1 November 2002, pp. 185-205(21). link
Oates,
Wallace. ÒFiscal Decentralization and Economic Development: Some Reflections.Ó Journal
of Applied Economics pdf
13.
Development strategies and country case studies
Hausman,
Ricardo, and Dany Rodrik. 2006. ÒDoomed to Choose: Industrial Policy as
PredicamentÓ.
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/doomed.pdf
Gulati,
Ashok, and Shenggen Fan. 2005. The Tiger and the Elephant. IFPRI.
14. Policy debate on foreign aid
Sachs, Jeffrey. 2005. The End of
Poverty. New York: The
Penguin Press.
Easterly, William. 2006. The White
ManÕs Burden. Chapter
11. ÒThe Future of Western Assistance.Ó New York: The Penguin Press.
Kristof, Nicholas. 2006. ÒAid: Can it
Work?Ó New York Review of Books
53(15): October 2006.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19374