Readings assigned PP 253/ARE 253, 2009

- Friday August 28, 2009

Word Bank-IMF, Global Monitoring Report 2009. Overview

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTGLOBALMONITOR/EXTGLOMONREP2009/0,,contentMDK:22149019~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:5924405,00.html

See in particular progress on the MDG on that page

Inspect the World Bank homepage for information www.worldbank.org

- Friday September 4, 2009. Poverty Assessments

Poverty and inequality course-WB

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTPROGRAMS/EXTPOVRES/0,,contentMDK:21612674~pagePK:64168182~piPK:64168060~theSitePK:477894,00.html

Look at the World Bank’s Guidance on Poverty Assessments, and in particular the Guidance Note on Poverty Assessment found at:

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20202212~isCURL:Y~menuPK:435735~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html

- Friday September 11 – Poverty
Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2007. "China's (uneven) progress against poverty." Journal of Development Economics 82(1): 1-42. link
 

- Friday September 18 - Inequality and Inequity

World Bank, Growth and Inequality

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPGI/0,,contentMDK:20263391~menuPK:577810~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:342771,00.html

- Friday September 25 – Social programs and the art of targeting

David Coady, Margaret E. Grosh, John Hoddinott. 2004. Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries. The World Bank. Read chapter 4

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=l3ppSymUipQC&dq=targeting+transfers+developing+countries+coady&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ils6E7d_9d&sig=wuRU0ov_z2xS3AZM36Q8atKyUlc&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA81,M1

- Friday October 2, 2009

Ariel Fiszbein and Norbert Schady. 2009. Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing present and future poverty. The World Bank

Read: Overview, pp. 1-27

http://books.google.com/books?id=aunlBU_2FsYC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=onditional+cash+transfer+overview+schady&source=bl&ots=_08Hq4HT3K&sig=fO_5Pw4w4uigscIReGaekfCZygI&hl=en&ei=NITFSo6zIovisQO02K2iBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false

- Friday October 9 and 16. 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. http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol15/issue1/index.dtl

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 http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol13/issue3/index.dtl

- Friday October 23, 2009: Development strategies and macro policies

Chapter 12. International Finance and Development: Exchange Rates and Foreign Capital Flows Download

The Economist, October 22, 2009. Special Report on China: Round and round it goes Download

- Friday October 30, 2009: Microfinance institutions

Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch. 2004. “Microfinance: Where do we Stand?” Attached

Look at the home pages of the following three internet microfinance lenders:

http://www.kiva.org/

https://www.myc4.com

http://www.prosper.com

How do they each work? What are their relative advantages and inconvenient?

- Friday November 6, 2009: Development and the Environment

- A bad climate for development, The Economist, Sep 17th 2009, Attached

- Last gasp for the forest, The Economist, Sep 24th 2009, Attached

- The price of cleanliness, , The Economist, Oct 22nd 2009, Attached

- Friday November 13, 2009: Common Property Resources and Cooperation

- Chapter 9: Common Property Resources and Cooperation, Attached

- A rising tide, The Economist, Sep 18, 2008, Attached

- Common Sense, The Economist, July 31, 2008, Attached