Readings

WEEK # TOPICS READINGS

1 Course Overview No readings
2
History: Colonialism and
Imperialism
Required
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below:
Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge University
Press, 2003, chapter 3, pp. 50-72. ISBN: 9780521816465.
Sandercock, Leonie. "Indigenous Planning and the Burden of Colonialism." Planning
Theory and Practice 5, no. 1 (March 2004): 118-124.
Mitchell, Tim. Colonizing Egypt. University of California Press, 1991,
chapters 3 and 6. ISBN: 9780520075689.
Recommended
Williams, Gavin. "Imperialism and Development: A Critique." World
Development 6, (1978): 925-936.
Amsden, Alice. Escape from Empire: The Developing World's
Journey Through Heaven and Hell. MIT Press, 2007, chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-38.
ISBN: 9780262012348.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. "Articles - The Colonial
Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." The American
Economic Review91, no. 5 (2001): 1369.
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History: Ideas and
Ideologies of Progress
and Modernization
Required
Friedmann, John. Two Centuries of Planning Thought: An Over-
View. InPlanning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 51-85. ISBN: 9780691022680.
Mazlish, B. The Idea of Progress. Daedalus 93 (Summer 1963): 447-461.
Mitchell, Timothy. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics,
Modernity.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, chapter 7. ISBN:
9781597348805.
Recommended
Sibert, J.M. Progress. In The Development Dictionary: A Guide to
Knowledge As Power. Edited by W. Sachs. London: Zed Books, 1992, pp. 192-205.
ISBN: 9781856490443.
Rothschild, E. Psychological Modernity in Historical Perspective.
In:Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert
O. Hirschman. Edited by L. Rodwin, and D. Schon. Washington, D.C.: Brookings
Institution, 1994, pp. 99-117. ISBN: 9780815775515.
Geertz, Clifford. Modernities In After the Fact: Two Countries, Four
Decades, One Anthropologist. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995,
pp. 136-168. ISBN: 9780674008717.
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Concepts: Pro versus
Anti-Development
Required
Wallerstein, Immanuel M. "After Developmentalism and Globalization,
What?" Social Forces83, no. 3 (2005): 1263-1278.
Apffel-Marglin, Frdrique, and Stephen A. Marglin. Dominating
Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
ISBN: 9780198286943.
Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: The Making and
Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995,
chapter 1. ISBN: 9780691001029.
Kolsterman, R. "Arguments for and Against Planning." In Readings
in Planning Theory. Edited by S. Campbell, and S. Fainstein. Blackwell, 2003, pp.
86-101. ISBN: 9780631223474.
Hirschman, Albert O. Rival Views of Market Society and Other
Recent Essays. New York: Viking, 1986, pp. 171-175. ISBN: 9780670813193.
Recommended
Arndt, H. W. Economic Development: The History of an Idea.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 115-147. ISBN: 9780226027203.
Berlin, Isaiah. "The Pursuit of the Ideal." In The Crooked Timber of
Humanity: Chapters on the History of Ideas. Edited by Isaiah Berlin, and Henry
Hardy. New York, NY: Knopf, 1991, pp. 1-21. ISBN: 9780679401315.
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Jacoby, R. "On Anti-Utopianism: More or Less." In Picture
Imperfect : Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2005, pp. 37-62. ISBN: 9780231128940.
Scott, J. C. "The High Modernist City: An Experiment and a
Critique." InSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human
Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN:
9780300078152.
Bates, Robert H. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political
Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. ISBN:
9780520042537.
Harvey, D. "On Planning the Ideology of Planning." In Planning
Theory in the 1980's: A Search for Future Directions. Edited by Robert W. Burchell,
and George Sternlieb. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research,
Rutgers University, 1978, pp. 213-234. ISBN: 9780882850481.
5
Concepts: The question
of Ethics
Required
Sanyal, Bish. "Globalization, Ethical Compromise and Planning Theory." Planning
Theory 1, no. 2 (2002): 116-123.
Gardner, Howard. "Compromised Work." Daedalus 134, no. 3 (2005): 42-51.
Hancock, Graham. Lords of Poverty. London: Mandarin, 1991, parts
I, II, and III. ISBN: 9780749305031.
Forester, John. "On the Ethics of Planning." In The Deliberative Practitioner:
Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.
Recommended
Giri, Ananta Kumar, and Philip Quarles van Ufford. A Moral Critique
of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. London: Routledge, 2003,
chapter 1. ISBN: 9780415276269.
Brooks, Michael P. Planning Theory for Practitioners. Chicago, III:
Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2002, pp. 185-195. ISBN:
9781884829598.
Bolan, R. S. "The Structure of Ethical Choice in Planning Practice." Journal of
Planning Education and Research 3, no. 1 (1983): 23-34.
Chambers, Robert. Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last.
London: Intermediate Technology, 1997, chapters 3 and 4. ISBN: 9781853393860.
Marcuse, Peter. "Professional Ethics and Beyond: Values in Planning." Journal of
the American Planning Association 42, no. 3 (1976): 264-274.
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Econ. Development
Theories: Neoclassical
and Dependency
Required
Lewis, A. W. "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of
Labor." InThe Economics of Underdevelopment. Edited by A. N. Agarwala, and
Sampat Pal Singh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Baran, Paul. "The Political Economy of Growth." In A. Agarwala, and
S. Singh. The Economics of Underdevelopment. A Series of Articles and Papers Sel.
and Ed. London: Oxford Univ. P., 1970. ISBN: 9780195606744.
Gunder Frank, Andre. "The Development of Underdevelopment." In Robert I.
Rhode.Imperialism and Development: A Reader. New York: Monthly Review Press,
1970, pp. 4-16.
Amsden, Alice H. Escape from Empire: The Developing World's
Journey Through Heaven and Hell. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007, chapter 5.
ISBN: 9780262012348.
Recommended
Kenny, Charles, and David Williams. "What Do We Know About Economic Growth?:
Or Why Don't We Know Very Much?" World Development : The Multi-Disciplinary
International Journal Devoted to the Study and Promotion of World
Development 29, no. 1 (2001).
Baran, Paul A. "On the Roots of Backwardness." In The Political
Economy of Growth. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000, pp. 134-161. ISBN:
9780853450764.
Cardoso, Fernando Enrique, and Enzo Faletto Verne. Dependency
and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California, 1979,
chapters 1-3, and 6. ISBN: 9780520031937.
7 Econ. Development Required
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Theories: State
Intervention and the
East Asian Miracle
Amsden, Alice H. The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West
from Late-Industrializing Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN:
9780195139693.
Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical
Perspective, A Book of Essays. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, 1962, pp. 5-30.
Chang, Ha-Joon. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in
Historical Perspective. London: Anthem, 2002, pp. 60-118. ISBN: 9781843310273.
World Bank. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public
Policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, chapters 1 and 2. ISBN:
9780195209938.
Recommended
Davis, Diane E. Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and
Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2004, chapters 1 and 6. ISBN: 9780521002080.
Amsden, Alice H. "Getting the Prices Wrong." In Asia's Next Giant:
South Korea and Late Industrialization. Oxford: Oxford University, 1989. ISBN:
9780195058529.
Amsden, A. "A Theory of Government Intervention in Late
Industrialization." In State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? Edited
by Louis G. Putterman, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9781555873110.
Bhagwati, Jagdish N. "Export-Promoting Trade Strategy: Issues and Evidence." The
World Bank Research Observer 3, no. 1 (1988): 27-57.
Myint, Hla. "Peasant Exports and the Growth of the Money Economy." In The
Economics of the Developing Countries. London: Hutchinson, 1965.
Bates, Robert H. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political
Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981, pp. 81-
95. ISBN: 9780520042537.
Baer, W. "Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences
and Interpretations." Latin American Research Review 7 (1972): 95-122.
8
Econ. Development
Theories: New
Institutionalism and Law
Required
Clague, Christopher K. "The New Institutional Economics and
Economic Development." In Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and
Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Countries. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 13-36. ISBN: 9780801854934.
World Bank. "Introduction" and "The Judicial System." In World
Development Report: Building Institutions for Markets. Edited by R. Islam. New
York: Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN:
9780195216073.
Soto, Hernando de. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism
Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books, 2003,
chapter 6. ISBN: 9780465016150.
Trubek, David M., and Alvaro Santos. The New Law and Economic
Development: A Critical Appraisal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006,
chapter 1, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9780521677578.
Recommended
World Bank. Legal and Judicial Reform: Observations, Experiences, and Approach
of the Legal Vice Presidency / Legal Vice Presidency, the World Bank. Washington,
DC: World Bank, 2002.
Glaeser, Edward, and Andrei Shleifer. "Legal Origins." The Quarterly Journal of
Economics117, no. 4 (2002): 1193-1229.
Dixit, Avinash K. Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of
Governance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 1-24. ISBN:
9780691114866.
Djankov, S., R. La Porta, F. Lopez-De-Silanes, and A. Shleifer. "Courts." The
Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 2 (2003): 453-517.
Evans, P. "Extending the Institutional Turn: Property, Politics and
Development Trajectories." In Institutional Change and Economic Development.
Edited by Ha-Joon Chang. New York, NY: United Nations University Press, 2007.
ISBN: 9781843312819.
Evans, Peter. "Development As Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping
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and the Potentials of Deliberation." Studies in Comparative International
Development (SCID) 38, no. 4 (2004): 30-52.
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Alternative Dev.
Theories: Human Rights
and Development
Required
Sen, Amartya. Development As Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1999,
chapters 1 and 2. ISBN: 9780375406195.
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below:
Development, Social Movements, and Third World Resistance. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780521016711.
World Bank. Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World
Bank. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1998, pp. 1-4, and 11-13. ISBN:
9780821343401.
United Nations. Human Rights and Human Development. Human
Development Report. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, chapter 1. ISBN:
9780195216790.
Sengupta, A. "Realising the Right to Development." Development and Change 31,
(2000): 553-78.
Recommended
Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko. World Poverty and Human Rights:
Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms. Cambridge: Polity, 2002, chapter 2.
ISBN: 9780745629957.
UN. General Assembly. "Declaration on the Right to Development." Human Rights :
a Compilation of International Instruments. Volume 1, 1st Part, Universal
Instruments. (41st sess: 1986-1987) (2002): 454-458.
Orford, Anne. "Globalization and the Right to Development."
In People's Rights. Edited by Philip Alston. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
ISBN: 9780198298755.
Marks, S. "The Human Right to Development: Between Rhetoric and
Reality." Harvard Human Rights Journal 17 (2004): 137-168.
Uvin, Peter. Human Rights and Development. Bloomfield, CT:
Kumarian Press, 2004, chapters 1 and 6. ISBN: 9781565491861.
World Commission on Dams. Dams and Development: A New Framework for
Decision-Making : the Report of the World Commission on Dams. London:
Earthscan, 2000.
10
Development Theories
Today in the Context of
Global Crisis
Required
Sabel, Charles, and Sanjay Reddy. "Learning to Learn: Undoing the Gordian Knot
of Development Today." Challenge 50, no. 5 (2007): 73-92.
Stiglitz, J. E. "The Current Economic Crisis and Lessons for Economic
Theory." Eastern Economic Journal 35, no. 3 (2009): 281-296.
Stiglitz, J. "Regulation and the Theory of Market and Government
Failure." In David Moss, and John Cisternino. New Perspectives on Regulation.
Cambridge, MA: The Tobin Project, 2009. ISBN: 9780982478806.
11 Actors: State
Required
Tendler, Judith. Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 9780801854521.
Chang, H. Joon. "Institutions and Economic Development: Good
Governance in Historical Perspective." In Kicking Away the Ladder: Policies and
Institutions for Development in Historical Perspective. Anthem Press, 2002, pp. 61-
81, and 99-123.
Annan, K. "The Role of the State in the Age of Globalization." In The
Globalization Reader. Blackwell: Oxford UK, 2007, pp. 240-243.
Evans, Peter B. "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of
Globalization." World Politics 50, no. 1 (1997): 62-87.
Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to
Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1999, introduction, and chapters 1-2 and 10, pp. 9-53. ISBN: 9780300078152.
Recommended
Sen, A. "Public Action and the Quality of Life in Developing Countries." Oxford
Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 43, no. 4 (1981): 287-319.
Killick, Tony. "Rethinking the Role of the State." In A Reaction Too
Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries. London:
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Overseas Development Institute, 1989, pp. 21-33. ISBN: 9780850031201.
Streeten, P. "Markets and State: Against Minimalism." World Development 21, no.
8: 1281-1298.
Rueschemeyer, D., and P. Evans. "The State and Economic
Transformation: Towards an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective
Interventions." In Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda
Skocpol. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge
University Press, 1985, pp. 44-77. ISBN: 9780521313131.
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Actors: Markets and
Marketization
Required
Hirschman, A. O. "Does The Market Keep Us Out of Mischief Or Out
of Happiness." In A Propensity to Self-Subversion. Cambridge, Mass; London:
Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. 213-320. ISBN: 9780674715585.
Starr, Paul. "The Meaning of Privatization." Yale Law and Policy Review 6, no. 1
(1988): 6-41.
Birdsall, Nancy, and John Nellis. "Winners and Losers: Asssessing the Distributional
Impact of Privatization." World Development 31, no. 10 (2003): 1617-1633.
Kim, Annette. Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam's
Transition Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, chapter 1. ISBN:
9780195369397.
Salvucci, F. "Reconstructing a Tragedy." The Boston Globe, July 21, 2006.
Williams, Shirley. "The Seeds of Iraq's Future Terror." The Guardian, October 28,
2003.
Recommended
Evans, P. "Introduction: Development Strategies Across the Public-Private
Divide." World Development 24, no. 6 (1996): 1033-37.
Bennell, P. "Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the
1990s." World Development 25, no. 11 (1997): 1785-1803.
Gathii, James T. "Foreign and Other Economic Rights Upon Conquest and Under
Occupation: Iraq in Comparative and Historical Perspective." University of
Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 25, no. 2 (Summer 2004):
525-553.
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Actors: Civil Society:
NGOs and Social
Movements
Required
Fisher, William F. "Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO
Practices." Annual Review of Anthropology 26 (1997): 439-464.
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below:
Development, Social Movements, and Third World Resistance. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 8. ISBN: 9780521016711.
Sanyal, B., and Vinit, M. "Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery: A Case of
Unforeseen Conflicts in Mumbai, India." World Development 29, no. 12 (2001):
2043-2057.
Roy, Ananya. "Civic Governmentality: The Politics of Inclusion in Beirut and
Mumbai."Antipode 41, no. 1 (2009): 159-179.
Recommended
Giugni, Marco. "How Social Movements Matter: Past Research,
Present Problems, Future Developments." In How Social Movements Matter. Edited
by Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly. Minneapolis, Minn: University of
Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 13-33. ISBN: 9780816629152.
Walzer, Michael. "The Civil Society Argument." In Chantal
Mouffe.Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community.
London: Verso, 1996, pp. 89-107. ISBN: 9780860915560.
Lemos, M. Carmen de Mello. "The Politics of Pollution Control in Brazil: State Actors
and Social Movements Cleaning up Cubalas." World Development 26, no. 1 (1998):
75-87.
Wade, R. "The Management of Common Property Resources: Collective Action as
an Alternative to Privatization or State Regulation." Cambridge Journal of
Economics 11 (1987): 95-106.
Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of
Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990,
pp. 88-104, and 207-216. ISBN: 9780521405997.
Abers, R. "Reflections on What Makes Empowered Participatory
Governance Happen." In Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in
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Empowered Participatory Governance. Edited by Archon Fung, Erik Olin Wright,
and Rebecca Abers. London: Verso, 2003, pp. 200-207. ISBN: 9781859844663.
Fung, Archon. "Associations and Democracy: Between Theories, Hopes, and
Realities."Annual Review of Sociology 29, no. 1 (2003): 515-539.
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Actors: Informal
Economy and Illegality
Soto, Hernando de. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism
Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books, 2003,
chapter 6. ISBN: 9780465016150.
Heyman, J., and A. Smart. "States and Illegal Practices: An
Overview." InStates and Illegal Practices. Edited by J. Heyman. Oxford: Berg,
1999. ISBN: 9781859732625.
Fernandes, Edesio, and Ann Varley. "Law, the City and Citizenship in
Developing Countries: An Introduction." In Illegal Cities: Law and Urban Change in
Developing Countries. London: Zed Books, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495509.
Sassen, Saskia. "The Informal Economy: Between New
Developments and Old Regulations." In Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays
on the New Mobility of People and Money. New York: New Press, 1998, pp. 153-
174. ISBN: 9781565845183.
Peattie, Lisa. "What Is to be Done With the Informal Sector? A Case
Study of Shoe Manufacturing in Colombia." In Helen Icken Safa. Towards a Political
Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries. Delhi: Oxford University Press,
1982, pp. 208-232. ISBN: 9780195613070.
Recommended
Soto, Hernando de. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to
Terrorism. New York: Basic Books, 2002, preface and chapter 5. ISBN:
9780465016105.
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Limits of Law in Counter-Hegemonic
Globalization: The Indian Supreme Court and The Narmada Valley Struggle."
In Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality. Edited by
Csar A. Rodrguez Garavito, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780521607353.
Sassen, Saskia. "Service Employment Regimes and The New
Inequality." InGlobalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of
People and Money. New York: New Press, 1998, pp. 137-152. ISBN:
9781565845183.
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Actors: Global Actors
and Institutions
Required
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "From Resistance to Renewal: Bretton
Woods Institutions and the Emergence of the 'New' Development Agenda."
In International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements, and Third
World Resistance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN:
9780521816465.
The UN-Habitat Strategic Vision (May 2003).
Wise, Timothy A., Hilda Salazar, and Laura Carlsen. "Investment,
Sovereignty and the Environment: The Metalclad and NAFTA's Chapter 11."
In Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in
Mexico. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781565491632.
Vision Mumbai: Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class City (McKensey Report
2003).
Recommended:
The Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on
Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. March 2009.
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "A New Opportunity in Cancun's Failure." and "A
Floundering WTO."
Sachs, Jeffrey. Investing in Development A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, Overview. London: Earthscan, 2005.
Lozner, Stacy. "Diffusion Of Local Regulatory Innovations: The San Francisco
CEDAW Ordinance And The New York City Human Rights Initiative." Colum L
Rev 104, no. 768 (April 2004).
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16
Multi-Level Planning and
Scale
Required
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Limits of Law in Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: The
Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley Struggle." Center for the Study of
Law and Governance Working Paper 04-04. New Delhi, India: Jawaharlal Nehru
University, May 2004.
Blank, Yishai. "The City and the World." Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 44,
no. 3 (2006).
Recommended
Sundaram, K. V. Decentralized Multilevel Planning: Principles and
Practice : Asian and African Experiences. New Delhi: Concept Pub. Co, 1997. ISBN:
9788170225805.
Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "Planning As Anticipation of Resistance." Planning Theory 4,
no. 3 (2005): 225-245. ISSN: 1473-0952.
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Key Issues: Governance
of Complexity in a
Globalized World
Required
Weiss, Thomas G. "Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance:
Conceptual and Actual Challenges." In Third World Quarterly 21, no. 5 (2000):
795-814.
Rodrik, D. "Governance and Economic Globalization." In Joseph S.
Nye, and John D. Donahue. Governance in a Globalizing World. Cambridge, Mass:
Visions of Governance for the 21st Century, 2000. ISBN: 9780815764083.
Jessop, Bob. "The Rise of Governance and The Risks of Failure: The Case of
Economic Development." International Social Science Journal 50, no. 155 (1998):
29-45.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. "The Promise of Development." In Making
Globalization Work. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006, pp. 25-60. ISBN:
9780393061222.
Kaufmann, D., A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobaton. "Governance Matters: From
Measurement to Action." Finance and Development 37 (2000): 10-13. ISSN: 0015-
1947.
Recommended
Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance Revisited." Development Policy
Review 25, no. 5 (2007): 533-574. ISSN: 0950-6764.
Islam, Roumeen. "Political Institutions and Governance." In World
Development Report: Building Institutions for Markets. New York: Published for the
World Bank, Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195216066.
International Monetary Fund. Good Governance: The IMF's Role.
Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 1997, pp. 1-10. ISBN:
9781557756909.
World Bank. Governance: The World Bank's Experience.
Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994, pp. xiii-xix; and 37-54. ISBN:
9780821328040.
UNDP. Reconceptualizing Governance (Discussion paper, 1997), pp. 1-20. (PDF)
Evans, Peter B. "Looking for Agents of Urban Livability in a
Globalized Political Economy." In Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood
and Sustainability. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 1-30. ISBN:
9780520230248.
Sen, A. "How to Judge Globalism." In The Globalization Reader.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 16-21. ISBN: 9781405102803.
Ackerman, John. "Co-Governance for Accountability: Beyond "Exit," and
"Voice." World Development 32, no. 3 (2004): 447. ISSN: 0305-750X.
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Key Issues: Urban-Rural
Linkages and Tradeoffs
Required
Yusuf, Shahid. "Dynamic Cities as Engines of Economic Growth."
In Entering the 21st Century World Development Report, 1999/2000. New York:
Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 126-138. ISBN:
9780585227368.
Jones G. A., and Corbridge S. "The Continuing Debate About Urban Bias: The
Thesis, Its Critics, Its Influence and Its Implications for Poverty-Reduction
Strategies." Progress in Development Studies 10, no. 1 (2010): 1-18.
Tacoli, C. "Rural-Urban Interactions; A Guide to the Literature." Environment and
Urbanization 10, no. 1 (1998): 147-166.
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Recommended
Davis, Diane E. Discipline and Development Middle Classes and
Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2004, chapters 4 and 5. ISBN: 9780521807487.
Mukherjee, Anit, and Xiaobo Zhang. "Rural Industrialization in China and India:
Role of Policies and Institutions." World Development 35, no. 10 (2007): 1621-
1634.
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Key Issues: Migration
and Development
Required
Haas, Hein de. Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual
Review of the Literature. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development, 2007.
Faist, T. "Migrants As Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the
Newest Round of the Migration-Development Nexus." Population, Space and
Place 14, no. 1 (2008): 21-42.
Levitt, Peggy. "Transnationalizing Community Development: The Case of Migration
Between Boston and the Dominican Republic." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly26, no. 4 (1997): 509-526.
Iskander, N. Innovating State Practice: Migration, Development, and State
Learning in the Moroccan Souss. MIT IPC Working Paper: IPC-05-009. 2005. (PDF
- 2.0MB)
Recommended
Orozco, Manuel, B. Lindsay Lowell, Micah Bump, and Rachel Fedewa. Transnational
Engagement, Remittances and their Relationship to Development in Latin America
and the Caribbean. Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown
University, 2005.
Kapur, Devesh. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and Group
of Twenty-Four. Remittances: The New Development Mantra? G-24 discussion
paper series, no. 29. New York; Geneva: United Nations, 2004.
Levitt, Peggy, and B. Nadya Jaworsky. "Transnational Migration Studies: Past
Developments and Future Trends." Annual Review of Sociology 33, (2007): 129.
Fox, Jonathan, and Xochtil Bada. "Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in
Rural Mexico." Journal of Agrarian Change 8, no. 2-3 (2008): 435.
Goldring, Luin. "Migrant Political Participation and Development: Re-Politicizing
Development and Re-Socializing Politics." Paper Presented at SSRC Migration and
Development Conference. New York, NY: 2008, Social Science Research Council,
28 February 1, March.
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Key Issues:
Participatory
Development
Required
Dalal-Clayton, Barry, David Dent, and Olivier Dubois, eds..
"Approaches to Participation in Planning." In Rural Planning in Developing
Countries. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2003, pp. 90-132. ISBN:
9781853839399.
Sousa Santos, Boaventura de. "Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a
Redistributive Democracy." Politics and Society 26, no. 4 (December 1998).
Mohan, G., and Stokke, K. "Participatory Development and Empowerment: The
Dangers of Localization." Third World Quarterly 21, no. 2 (2000): 247-268.
Krishna, A. "Partnerships Between Local Governments and Community-Based
Organizations: Exploring the Scope for Synergy." Public Administration and
Development23 (2003): 361-371.
International Council on Human Rights, Local Self-Rule: Decentralization and
Human Rights. 2000, pp. 1-35.
Recommended
Midgley, James. "Community Participation: History, Concepts and
Controversies." In Community Participation, Social Development, and the State.
London: Methuen, 1986, pp. 13-44. ISBN: 9780416398205.
Chambers, R. "The Origins and Practice of Participatory Rural Appraisal". In World
Development 22, no. 7 (1994): 953-969. (PDF - 1.7MB)
Webster, N. "Democracy, Development and the Institutionalized
Participation of the Poor for Poverty Reduction." In Paul D. Collins. Applying Public
Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future. Chichester, West Sussex
[u.a.]: Wiley, 2000, pp. 315-328. ISBN: 9780471877363.
WEEK # TOPICS READINGS
Charlick, Robert. "Popular Participation and Local Government Reform." Public
Administration and Development 21 (2001): 149-157. (PDF)
Lavalle, Adrian G., Arnab Acharya, and Peter P. Houtzager. "Beyond Comparative
Anecdotalism: Lessons on Civil and Political Organizations Shape Participation in
So Paulo, Brazil." World Development 33, no. 6 (2005): 951-961. (PDF)
Grindle, Merilee. Going Local: Decentralization, Democracy, and the
Promise of Good Governance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, chapters
1, 6, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780691140988.
Tendler, Judith. "Decentralization, Participation, and Other Things
Local." InGood Governance in the Tropics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997,
pp. 142-163. ISBN: 9780801860928.
21
Key Issues: Corruption
and Reform of Public
Institutions
Required
Ferguson, James. The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development."
Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1994, pp. 1-22, and 251-278. ISBN: 9780816624379.
Wade, R. "How to Make Street Level Bureaucrats Work Better: India and
Korea." IDS Bulletin 23, no. 4 (1992): 51-55.
Rondinelli, Dennis A., and G. Shabbir Cheema. Reinventing
Government for the Twenty-First Century: State Capacity in a Globalizing Society.
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2003, pp. 99-199. ISBN: 9781565491786.
Grindle, M. "The Good, the Bad, and the Unavoidable: Improving
the Public Service in Poor Countries." In John D. Donahue, and Joseph S. Nye. For
the People Can We Fix Public Service? Cambridge, Mass: Visions of Governance in
the 21st Century, 2003, pp. 90-113. ISBN: 9780815718963.
Klitgaard, Robert. Controlling Corruption. Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 1-50. ISBN: 9780520059856.
Recommended
Paul, S. "Accountability in Public Service: Exit, Voice, and Control." World
Development 20, no. 7 (July 1992): 1047-1060.
Wade, R. "Politics and Graft: Recruitment, Appointment, and
Promotions to Public Office in Italy." In Corruption, Development and Inequality:
Soft Touch and Hard Graft. Edited by Peter M. Ward. New York, NY: Routledge,
1989, pp. 73-109. ISBN: 9780415019989.
Banfield, E. C. "Corruption as a Failure of Governmental
Organization." InEthics in Planning. Edited by Martin Wachs. New Brunswick, NJ:
Center for Policy Research, 1985, pp. 143-161. ISBN: 9780882851037.
Ehrenhalt, A. "The Paradox of Corrupt yet Effective Leadership." The New York
Times, September 30, 2002, p. A25.
Davis, J. "Corruption in Public Service Delivery: Experience from South Asia's
Water and Sanitation Sector." World Development 32, no. 1 (January 2004): 53-
71(19).
Rose-Ackerman, Susan. Corruption and Government: Causes,
Consequences, and Reform. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.
39-68, and 225-228. ISBN: 9780521659123.
Gray, Cheryl, and Daniel Kaufmann. "Corruption and Development." Finance and
Development (March 1998): 7. (PDF)
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Corruption, Legitimacy and Human Rights: The Dialectic
of The Relationship." Connecticut Journal of International Law 14 (1999): 495.
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. "Corruption as Empowerment." The Hindu, August 11, 2001.
22
Key Issues: Trade,
Outsourcing, and Labor
Standards
Required
Edwards, Sebastian. "Openness, Trade Liberalization, and Growth in Developing
Countries." Journal of Economic Literature 31, no. 3 (1993): 1358-1393.
Chang, Ha-Joon. Introduction in Kicking Away the Ladder:
Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. London: Anthem, 2002. ISBN:
9781843310273.
Khor, Martin. Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements: Some Critical
Elements and Development Implications. Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network,
2008. ISBN: 9789832729594.
Freeman, Richard B. "Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?" The Journal of Economic
Perspectives: A Journal of the American Economic Association 9, no. 3 (1995): 15.
Suri, Navdeeep. "Offshore Outsourcing of Services as a Catalyst of
WEEK # TOPICS READINGS
Economic Development: The Case of India." In Paus, Eva. Global Capitalism
Unbound: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007, pp. 163-180. ISBN: 9781403984296.
Kaplinsky, Raphael, Dorothy McCormick, and Mike Morris. "The Impact of China on
Sub-Saharan Africa." IDS Working Paper 291, November, 2007.
Recommended
ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. 1998.
Alston, Philip. "Core Labour Standards and the Transformation of the International
Labour Rights Regime." European Journal of International Law 15, no. 3 (June
2004): 457.
Ansley, Fran. "Local Contact Points, Global Divides: Labor Rights
and Immigrant Rights as Sites for Cosmopolitan Legality." In Csar A. Rodrguez
Garavito, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Law and Globalization from Below:
Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2005. ISBN: 9780521845403.
Briening-Kaufman, Chrine. "The Right to Food and Trade in
Agriculture." In Thomas Cottier, Joost Pauwelyn, and Elisabeth Brgi
Bonanomi. Human Rights and International Trade. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2005. pp. 341-381. ISBN: 9780199285822.
UNCTAD. Sao Paulo Consensus, TD/410, paras, (25 June 2004), pp. 1-11. (PDF)
Shiva, Vandana. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit.
Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002, Introduction and chapter 1. ISBN:
9780896086500.
Rodrguez-Garavito, Csar. "Global Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of
Conduct and Anti-Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in Mexico and
Guatemala." Politics and Society 33, no. 2 (2005): 203-333.
Rodrguez Garavito, Csar A., and Boaventura de Sousa
Santos. Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780521845403.
Hensman, Rohini. "Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization?
International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy." British
Journal of Industrial Relations42, no. 4 (December 2004): 761-763.
Kucera, David. "Core Labour Standards and Foreign Direct
Investment." International Labour Review 141, no. 1-2 (2002).
Palley, Thomas I. "The Economic Case for International Labour
Standards." Cambridge Journal of Economics 28, no. 1 (2004): 21-36.
Locke, Richard M, Fei Qin, and Alberto Brause. "Does Monitoring Improve Labor
Standards? Lessons from Nike." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 61, no. 1
and 3 (2007): 1-29.
23
Key Issues: Aid and
Development
Required
Minoiu, Camelia, and Sanjay Reddy. Development Aid and Economic Growth A
Positive Long-Run Relation. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Easterly, William. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts
to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good. New York: Penguin
Press, 2006, chapters 5, 8 and 11. ISBN: 9781594200373.
'Smart Power in the Name of Security.' The Hill. By Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.),
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Claude Fontheim, July, 2009.
Recommended
Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our
Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2005, chapters 12, 13, 14 and 15. ISBN:
9781594200458.
Banerjee, Abhijit. "Making Aid Work," (and the responses). Boston Review,
July/August 2006.
24
Key Issues: Global
Poverty
Required
Pogge, Thomas, and Sanjay Reddy. "Unknown: The Extent, Distribution and Trend
of Global Income Poverty." (2006).
Reddy, Sanjay G., and Camelia Minoiu. "Has World Poverty Really Fallen?" Review
of Income and Wealth 53, no. 3 (2007): 484-502.
Reddy, Sanjay, and Antoine Heuty. "Global Development Goals: The Folly of
Technocratic Pretensions." Development Policy Review 26, no. 1 (2008): 5-28.
Mahadevia, Darshini. "Perspectives - Nurm and the Poor in Globalising Mega
WEEK # TOPICS READINGS
Cities."Economic and Political Weekly 41, no. 31 (2006): 3399.
Recommended
Minoiu, Camelia, and Sanjay Reddy. "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals:
What's Wrong with Existing Analytical Models?" Harvard Center for Population and
Development Studies 14, no. 3 (2006).
25
Key Issues: Security
and Post-Conflict
Development and
Review
Required
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Invoking the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Rebuilding: A
Critical Examination." William and Mary Law Review 49, no. 4 (2008): 1345.
Andersen, R. "How Multilateral Development Assistance Triggered The Conflict in
Rwanda."Third World Quarterly: Journal of Emerging Areas 21.
Bello, Walden. "The Rise of the Relief and Reconstruction Complex." Journal of
International Affairs 59 (2006): 281.
Natsios, Andrew S. "The Nine Principles of Reconstruction and
Development." Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College 35 (2005): 4-20.
Van Gennip, Jos. "Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development." Development 48
(September 2005): 57-62.
Davis, Diane E. "Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities and Shifting
Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World." Contemporary
Security Policy30, no. 2 (2009): 221-245.
Recommended
Schadlow, Nadia. "Root's Rules: Lessons from America's Colonial Office." The
American Interest 2 (January-February 2007): 92-102.
Berger, M. "From Nation-Building to State-Building: The Geopolitics of
Development, The Nation-State System and The Changing Global Order." Third
World Quarterly 27 (2006): 5-25.
U.S. Joint Forces Command. Military Support to Stabilization, Security, Transition,
and Reconstruction Operations Joint Operating Concept (JOC). Suffolk, VA: U.S.
Joint Forces Command, 2006, p. 45. (PDF)
Mondiale, Banque. Post Conflict Reconstruction The Role of the
World Bank. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1998. ISBN: 9780821342152