Class #1, August 29
Inspect the World Bank homepage www.worldbank.org
Inspect the Global Challenges homepage link
Read: Global Monitoring Report 2008: Overview link

Class #2, September 5- Poverty Assessments
Look at the World Bank' Guidance on Poverty Assessments, and in particular the Guidance Note on Poverty Assessment found at: link.
Poverty Assessment for Burkina Faso. link Read the Executive Summary.

Class #3, September 12 - Poverty
Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2007. "China's (uneven) progress against poverty." Journal of Development Economics 82(1): 1-42. link

Class #4. September 19 - Targeting of social programs
David Coady, Margaret E. Grosh, John Hoddinott. 2004. Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries. The World Bank. Read chapter 4 link

Class #5. September 26. Targeting and social programs (continued)
Bardhan, Pranab. 1996. "Efficiency, Equity, and Poverty Alleviation: Policy Issues in Less Developed Countries." Economic Journal 106(438): 1344-56. link

Class # 7. October 10. Migration and Development
"Migration and Development". Draft Chapter for Development textbook. (distributed)

Class # 8. October 17. Trade, industrialization, and exchange rate policies
"When fortune frowned" Oct 9th 2008, The Economist link
"China's Currency Needs to Rise Further" by Morris Goldstein and Nicholas R. Lardy, Peterson Institute. Op-ed in the Financial Time, July 22, 2008. link

Classes #9 and 10 - October 24 and 31, 2008. 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 # 11 - November 7, 2008. Access to Financial Services in Development
Breaking Through Poverty with Microfinance - Grameen Fdn link
"Microfinance: Where do we stand", chapter 5 in The economics of microfinance, by Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005, pp. 352) Armendarz de Aghion, Beatriz and Jonathan Morduch. link

Class # 12 - November 14, 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
Besley, Timothy , Rohini Pande, Vijayendra Rao. 2005, "Political Economy of Panchayats in South India" Economic and Political Weekly, February 24, 2007. link
Other references

Class #13. November 21, 2008. Debate on foreign aid
Read or read about:
Jeffrey Sachs. The End of Poverty
William Easterly. 2007. "The white man's burden". link
Paul Collier. The Bottom Billion

Class #14. December 5, 2008. Vulnerabilty to shocks and consequences
Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip; Bundervoet, Tom; "Civil war, crop failure, and child stunting in Rwanda". World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4208. April 2007 link
Other references