This document outlines the readings for a 14-week development studies course, organized into topics covered each week. The topics include the hubris of development, institutions and governance, globalization and well-being, and development in the 21st century. Each week lists 3-4 academic papers or books related to that week's theme.
2. Week 8 Hubris of Development 1
PT Baur, Foreign aid, forever?
D Lal, The dirigiste dogma
M Edwards, Irrelevance of development
studies
3. Week 9 Hubris of Development 2
J Williamson, Democracy and the Washington
Consensus
JC Scott, Seeing like a state
D Elson, Male bias in the development
Process
J Ferguson, The anti-politics machine in
Lesotho
4. Week 10 Institutions, Governance,
Participation
D Rodrik, Goodbye Washington Consensus
P Heller, Moving the state
M Mamdani, Linking the urban the rural
D Mosse, Peoples knowledge
5. Week 11 Globalization, Security, Well-
being 1
M Wolf, The market crosses borders
RH Wade, Is globalization reducing poverty
and inequality?
P Dasgupta, Wealth and well-being
6. Week 11 Globalization, Security, Well-
being 2
A Sen, More than 100 million women are
missing
B Agarwal, Conceptualizing environmental
collective action
BG Schoepf, AIDS, gender, and sexuality
during Africas economic crisis
7. Week 12 Development in the 21st
Century 1
S Radelet & J Sachs, Asias reemergence
P Collier, On missing the boat
F Cooper, The recurrent crisis of the
gatekeeper state
8. Week 13 Development in the 21st
Century 2
F Coronil, Beyond occidentalism
A Appadurai, Globalization and violence
T Dyson On development, demography and
climate change