University of Sheffield Department of Economics ECN6001

ECN6001 Development Economics

Personnel Module leader Abrar Suleiman Contact details Room MB416 Economics and Management Building

C&F Times: Tuesday 15 – 16; Thursday 14 – 15 Email: a.suleiman@sheffield.ac.uk

Tutor Abrar Suleiman Prerequisites Intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics

Module Aims and Objectives

Aims To develop a critical awareness of the distinctive features of economic problems

in developing countries in the context of an increasingly globalized world. To provide a rigorous application of the principles of economic theory to the

problems of developing countries and global development. To develop an understanding of how economic theory and analysis can inform public

policy debate on global development problems.

The intended learning outcomes are that by the end of the module you should demonstrate An understanding of the main factors determining the wealth and poverty of

nations: the ability to analyse market structure and behaviour, both urban and rural, in

developing countries: An understanding of how the economies of developing countries function and can

be influenced by national and international policy and institutional reform Transferable Skills

an array of problem-solving and analytical skills designed for careers in research and policy analysis.

individual research and report-writing skills group discussions and presentation skills

Timetable

There will be 2 lectures per week:

Thursday 10:00 – 10:50 MB SR 119

Thursday 11:00 - 11:50 MB SR 119

Starting week 4, there will be seminars, which is timetabled

Thursday 12:00 - 12:50 MB SR 119

Seminars are largely orientated towards student-led discussions on essay themes.

Plus other sessions as needed.

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Student Responsibilities

This is a 15 credit module and therefore it is expected it will require 150 study hours

per student (including formal teaching hours). As a rough guideline this means you

should expect to devote about 10 hours of study time per week to this module during

a 15 week semester.

Attendance at all lectures and seminars is compulsory and will be monitored.

Draft schedules about seminars will be placed on MOLE at least one week prior to

the seminar.

Students should make use of staff consultation and feedback times to discuss any

issues they have with the module and which are not resolved in lectures or seminars

Assessment

The assessment of this module will be by unseen exam (50%) and an essay (50%). By end of week 3, students are required to give their tentative topic for the essay and their preferred date for seminar presentation to the lecturer. Note that presentation at one of the seminars is a compulsory part of the module. Details about the essay including a list of suggested topics will be available no later than 12 October 2011. The submission date for essay is Monday 10 December 2011. The word limit must not be exceeded 3000. Note that the word limit is intended as a signal of intended effort and so a 10% margin is acceptable. Coursework must always be submitted in hard copy to the Enquiry Office, and by no later than 3.00pm on the day of the deadline. Unauthorised late submissions will incur a penalty of 5% of the mark per day for 5 working days and after that a mark of zero. A Turnitin submission should be made within 5 working days of the paper copy deadline. Failure to submit an assessment to Turnitin by this date will lead to a zero mark for the assessment. Marked coursework will be returned within 3 working weeks. The exam will be two hours in length. A specimen paper will be placed on the module website The pass mark for this module is 50% overall and there is a minimum mark required for every component of 40%. Any change to assessment arrangements will be announced in lectures and also via the website. Reassessment In the case of students who fail the assessment of this module, repeat assessment will be by examination and/or repeat coursework depending on the nature of any failure . Resit marks will be capped at 50%, Resit candidates must consult the website for further information, up until the time of the reassessment, not merely in semester time. Website Students must read the module website on MOLE regularly. The header on the homepage will indicate new posts but students should also check regularly for announcements. All the information in this outline, as well as assessment information will be available on the website. Lecture notes will be posted usually before lecture.

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Student Feedback The module website has a Module Feedback Report which gives a detailed account by the module leader of the student experience on this module last year. Soon after coursework is returned to students, general feedback will be given on the website on performance in the coursework, in addition to the individual feedback given on the pink cover sheet which accompanies returned coursework. Course Outline In this module, we shall not follow any particular book. Specific chapters from the

following books are given after each lecture.

Basu, Kaushik (1997) “Analytical Development Economics”, Cambridge, MIT press.

P. Bardhan and C. Udry (1999) Development Microeconomics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

R. Barro and X. Sala -I- Martin, (1995), Economic growth, New York/London: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Ray, Debraj (1998), Development Economics, Prineston University Press. G. Meier and J. Rauch (2000) Leading Issues in Economic Development, Oxford

University Press. (latest edition of 2005 can be used) You may consult the following resources at different parts of the course:

Handbook of development economics, various issues. World Development Reports, of various issues are essential, especially for the

second part of this module involving some issues such as 19990 and 2000/01 on

poverty, 1993 on health, and 1997 on governance. 2004/2005 on pro-poor and equity and 2008 on agriculture on development.

UNDP’s Human Development Report, various issue. Essential are: HDR 2003 (on

Millennium Development Goals); HDR 1990 and 2010 (on concepts and measurements of

poverty, HDI and the new Multidimensional Poverty Index); HDR 1997 on poverty

Note that these are just indicative rather than exhaustive. Readings are subject to

amendement and a list of important readings will be indicated as the course

proceeds , and students are strongly advised to consult these readings.

Lectures are divided into three broad themes: (I) Growth and Development: the

grand issues; (II) Microeconomics of key markets and institutions,(III) policies and

new perspectives.

Part I: Growth and Development: grand issues Lecture 1: Introduction and background

Basu (1997), chapter 1

Debraj (1998), chapter 1 & 2

Bahrdan and Udry (1999), chapter 1

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 1

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Further Reading: United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 2006 (New York, Oxford

university press, 2006, Table 1) UNDP’s Human Development Report, HDR 2003 (on Millennium Development Goals) Richard Layard, happiness: lessons from a new science (New York, Penguin, 2005, page 5). UN Millennium Project, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium

Development Goals, Main Report and MDG Needs Assessment, United Nations: New York, January 2005.

Lecture 2: Growth and development models (1): ‘classical’ schools of thought

Barro and Martin (1995), chapter 1-5

Basu (1997), chapter 2 & 3

Debraj (1998), chapter 3 & 4

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 3 & 4

Further Reading:

W.A. Lewis, ‘Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour’, Manchester School, 1954.

Symposium in Manchester School to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Lewis model, December 2004.

Lecture 3: Growth and development models (2): Growth theories and empirics

Barro and Martin (1995), chapter 1-5

Basu (1997), chapter 2 & 3

Debraj (1998), chapter 3 & 4

Meier and Rauch (2000), chapter 3 & 4

Lecture 4: Trade and Growth: policy perspectives of globalization

Basu (1997), chapter 4-6

Debraj (1998), chapter 16-18

Bahrdan and Udry (1999), chapter 14

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 4

Further Reading (lectures 3-4):

(a) growth theories

P. Romer, ‘Increasing returns and long-run growth’, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 94(1986), 1002-1037.

Peter McAdam and Christopher Allsopp (eds.0 (2007) The Solow growth model, Oxford Review of

Economic Policy, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2007 (www.oxrep.oxfordjournals.org)

(b) growth empirics: openness, growth and poverty

World Bank, World Development Reports for 1990 (Poverty) and 2000 (Attacking Poverty)

World Bank, Poverty Reduction Handbook, Washington 1993.

R. Barro, ‘Economic growth in a cross-section of countries’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 106(1991), 407-443.

R. Levine and D. Renelt, ‘A sensitivity analysis of cross –country growth regressions’, American Economic Review, vol. 82(1992), 942-963.

W. Easterly et al. ‘Good policy or good luck? Country growth performance and temporary shocks’, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 32(1993), 459-483.

J. Sachs and A. Warner, ‘Economic reform and the process of global integration’, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, vol. 1(1995), 1-118.

J. Sachs and A. Warner, ‘Sources of slow growth in African economies’, Journal of African Economies, vol. 6(1997), 335-377.

S. Edwards, Openness, productivity and growth: what do we really know?’, Economic Journal,

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vol. 108(1998), 383-399.

P. Mosley, ‘Globalisation, economic policy and convergence’, The World Economy, vol. 23(2000), 613-634.

D. Greenaway and others, ‘Trade liberalisation and growth in developing countries: some new evidence’,

World Development, vol 25(1997, 1873-1885.

World Bank, The east Asian Miracle, Washington DC 1993, chapter 3.

Sala-i-Martin, X. - I just ran two million regressions, American economic review 87(2), 1997, p.187-183

Dollar, D. and Kraay, A. - Growth is good for the poor. - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no

2587 (2001)

L. Hanmer and F. Naschold, ‘Attaining the International Development Targets: will growth be enough?’, Development Policy Review, vol. 18 (March 2000) 11-37.

H. Dagdeviren, R. van der Hoeven and J. Weeks, Redistribution matters: growth for poverty reduction, Geneva; ILO employment paper 2000/10.

A. Booth and P. Mosley, The new poverty strategies, Macmillan Palgrave, 2003. Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke eds., (2007), The Impact of Globalization on the World’s Poor:

Transmission Mechanisms, London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Ravi Kanbur, "The Co-Evolution of the Washington Consensus and the Economic Development Discourse", August, 2008. Revised version published in Macalester International, Volume 24, Summer 2009.

Lecture 5: Inequality, Poverty and Growth (1): meaning of development/under-

development

Debraj (1998), chapter 6-8

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 1

Further Readings: • Amartya, Sen, (1999), Development as Freedom, New York, Knolf.

• __________(1985), commodities and capabilities, Amesterdam, Elsevier

A.K. Sen, Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1983.

World Bank, World Development Reports for 1990 (Poverty) and 2000/01 (Attacking Poverty)

World Bank, Poverty Reduction Handbook, Washington 1993.

UNDP’s Human Development Report, HDR 1990 and 2010 (on concepts and measurement of development)

Dervis, Kemal; Klugman, Jeni. (2011) Measuring Human Progress: The Contribution of the Human

Development Index and Related Indices. Revue d'Economie Politique. Vol. 121 (1). p 73-92. January-

February 2011.

Rubin, Olivier. (2009),The Entitlement Approach: A Case for Framework Development Rather Than

Demolition: A Comment on 'Entitlement Failure and Deprivation: A Critique of Sen's Famine Philosophy'.,

Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 45 (4). p 621-40. April 2009.

Nussbaum, Martha C. (2011), Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Cambridge and

London: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press. p xii, 237. 2011.

Lecture 6: Inequality, Poverty and Growth (2): concepts, measurement and evidence

Debraj (1998), chapter 6 - 8

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 8

Further Reading:

World Bank, World Development Reports for 1990 (Poverty) and 2000/01 (Attacking Poverty)

World Bank, Poverty Reduction Handbook, Washington 1993.

UNDP’s Human Development Report, HDR 1990 and 2010 (on concepts and

measurement of development)

L. Hanmer and F. Naschold, ‘Attaining the International Development Targets: will growth be

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enough?’, Development Policy Review, vol. 18 (March 2000) 11-37.

H. Dagdeviren, R. van der Hoeven and J. Weeks, Redistribution matters: growth for poverty reduction, Geneva; ILO employment paper 2000/10.

A. Booth and P. Mosley, The new poverty strategies, Macmillan Palgrave, 2003.

P.Mosley, A.Suleiman, and Blessing,C (2007),Escape routes from the rural poverty trap: evidence from

three African countries, unpublished (can be obtained from one of the authors).

Alam, Asad, et al. (2005) Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.

Washington, D.C.: World Bank. p xix, 302. 2005.

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Ravallion, Martin (2008) Global poverty and inequality : a review of the

evidence, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper n0: WPS 4623

Ravallion, Martin, Pro-Poor Growth: A Primer (March 17, 2004). World Bank Policy Research Working

Paper No. 3242.

Lecture 7: Inequality, Poverty and Development (3): Economics of famine

Key Readings: A.K. Sen, Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1983.

A.K. Sen and D. Jean (eds) 1991, the political economy of Hunger, Volumes 1-3.

G.H. Chang and G.J. Wen, ‘Communal dining and the Chinese famine of 1958-61’, Economic Development

and Cultural Change, vol. 45(1997), 1-34.

P. Webb, J. von Braun and Y. Yohannes, Famine in Ethiopia: policy implications of coping failure at

national and household levels, Washington DC: IFPRI, 1993.

Lin, J. Y. and Yang, D. T. (2000), Food Availability, Entitlements and the Chinese Famine of 1959–61. The

Economic Journal, 110: 136–158. doi: 10.1111/1468-0297.00494

Grada, Cormac. (2009) Famine: A Short History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. p xiii,

327. 2009.

Mason, Nicole M; Jayne, T. S; Chapoto, Antony; Myers, Robert J. (2010) A Test of the New Variant

Famine Hypothesis: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia. World Development. Vol. 38 (3). p 356-68.

March 2010.

UmanaAponte, Marcela. (2011) Long-term effects of a nutritional shock: the 1980 famine of Karamoja,

Uganda. Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK, The Centre for Market and Public

Organisation. p 60 pages. 2011.

Mu, Ren; Zhang, Xiaobo. (2011), Why Does the Great Chinese Famine Affect the Male and Female

Survivors Differently? Mortality Selection versus Son Preference., Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 9

(1). p 92-105. January 2011

M. Ravallion, (1997) Famines and Economics, Journal of Economic Literature , Vol. 35, No. 3, Sep., 1997 ,

pp. 1205 – 1242.

Rubin, Olivier. (2009)The Merits of Democracy in Famine Protection--Fact or Fallacy? European Journal

of Development Research. Vol. 21 (5). p 699-717. December 2009.

Tridico, Pasquale; Burchi, Francesco. (2011) , Institutions, Famine and Inequality. Department of

Economics - University Roma Tre, Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre':

0121. p 38. 2010.

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy; Yared, Pierre. The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, NBER Working Papers: 16361. 2010.

Lecture 8-9: The dual economy revisited: Labour market dualism, migration and urban

unemployment

Basu (1997), chapter 7-10

Debraj (1998), chapter 10

Bahrdan and Udry (1999), chapter 4, 5 & 15

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 6

Further Reading: World Bank, World Development Report 1999-2000 (New York, Oxford university press, 2000)

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ILO-International Labour Office (2009), Global Employment Trends, May 2009

Update, Geneva, ILO.

A. Lewis, ‘Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour’, Manchester School, 1954;

Lewis, W Arthur, 1979. "The Dual Economy Revisited," The Manchester School of Economic & Social

Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 47(3), pages 211-29, September.

Gary S. Fields, 2004. "Dualism In The Labor Market: A Perspective On The Lewis Model After Half

A Century," Manchester School, vol. 72(6), pages 724-735, December.

Harris J. and M. Todaro (1970). Migration, Unemployment & Development: A Two-Sector Analysis.

American Economic Review, March 1970; 60(1):126-42.

Leibenstein, Harvey (1957). Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth. NY: John Wiley & Sons

Joseph E. Stiglitz, 1972. "Alternative Theories of Wage Determination and Unemployment in L.D.C.'s: I.

The Labor Turn-Over Model," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 335, Cowles Foundation, Yale

University

Part II: The Rural Economy and Microeconomics of key markets and institutions

Lecture 10: State of the rural economy and poverty: Why towards agriculture and

employment-based rural development strategy?

Basu (1997), chapter 11

Debraj (1998), chapter 10 & 11

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 7

Further Reading: Stein, Howard. (2011) World Bank Agricultural Policies, Poverty and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan

Africa. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Vol. 4 (1). p 79-90. March 2011.

Ravallion, Martin, Pro-Poor Growth: A Primer (March 17, 2004). World Bank Policy Research Working

Paper No. 3242.

Derek D. Headey, 2008. "National policies and the sectoral pattern of economic growth," Agricultural

Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 38(3), pages 287-299, 05

Derek Headey & Mohammad Alauddin & D.S. Prasada Rao, 2010. "Explaining agricultural productivity

growth: an international perspective," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural

Economists, vol. 41(1), pages 1-14, 01

Bezemer, Dirk & Headey, Derek, 2008. "Agriculture, Development, and Urban Bias," World

Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(8), pages 1342-1364, August

Thirtle, Colin; Lin, Lin; Piesse, Jenifer. (2003) The Impact of Research-Led Agricultural Productivity

Growth on Poverty Reduction in Africa, Asia and Latin America. World Development. Vol. 31 (12). p

1959-75. December 2003.

Dethier, Jean-Jacques; Effenberger, Alexandra. (2011) Agriculture and development: a brief review of the

literature. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series: 5553. 2011.

Christiaensen, Luc; Demery, Lionel. (2007) Down to Earth: Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Africa.

Washington, D.C.: World Bank. p xi, 105. 2007.

Mwabu, Germano; Thorbecke, Erik. (2004) Rural Development, Growth and Poverty in Africa. Journal of

African Economies. Vol. 13 (0). p i16-65. Supplement 1 2004.

Hazell, Peter; von Braun, Joachim. (2006) Guest Editorial: Aid to Agriculture, Growth and Poverty

Reduction. EuroChoices. Vol. 5 (1). p 6-13. 2006.

Lecture 11: Rural markets and institutions (1): risk, uncertainty and the vicious circle

of poverty

Basu (1997), chapter 11-14

Debraj (1998), chapter 12 - 15

Bahrdan and Udry (1999), chapter 6-9

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 7

Further Reading: World Bank, World Development Report 2000/01; Attacking Poverty, chapter 8.

World devedlopmet report 2008, Oxford university ress, 2007, new york

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D. Narayan and others, 2000, Voices of the poor: can anyone hear us? New York; Oxford University

Press.

G. Akerlof, ‘The market for lemons’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1970, reprinted in Akerlof, An

Economic Theorist’s Book of Tales, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

J. Stiglitz and J. Weiss, ‘Credit rationing in markets with imperfect information’, American Economic

Review, vol. 71(1981).

Stiglitz, Joseph E, 1974. "Incentives and Risk Sharing in Sharecropping," Review of Economic Studies,

Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(2), pages 219-55, April.

J. Weeks, 1971, ‘Uncertainty, risk and wealth and income distribution in peasant agriculture’, Journal of

Development Studies, vol. 8, pp. 28-36.

H. Binswanger, 1981, ‘Attitudes towards risk: theoretical implications of an experiment in rural India’,

Economic Journal, vol. 91(19810, 867-891.

I. Finkelstein and E. Feinerman, 1997, ‘Framing the Allais paradox as a daily farm decision problem; tests

and explanations’, Agricultural Economics, vol. 15(1997), 155-167.

Sylvain Dessy & Jacques Ewoudou & Isabelle Ouellet, 2006. "Understanding the Persistent Low

Performance of African Agriculture," Cahiers de recherche 0622, CIRPEE.

Lecture 12: Rural markets and institutions (2): the green revolution – Asia and Africa

Basu (1997), chapter 11-14

Meier and Rauch (2000), chapter 7

Further Reading: P.Mosley and A.Suleiman (2007), Aid, agriculture and poverty in developing countries, Review of

Development Economics, vol. 11(February) 139-159.

Derek, D Heady and Michal E. Johnson, (2008), “Toward a green revolution in Africa: what would it

achieve, and what would it require?”, Agricultural Economics, Vol 39 (2008, Issue s1 (November), Pages:

539-550

Feder, Gershon & Just, Richard E & Zilberman, David, 1985. "Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in

Developing Countries: A Survey," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago

Press, vol. 33(2), pages 255-98, January

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro & Johnson, Michael & Magalhaes, Eduardo & Diao, Xinshen & You, Liang &

Chamberlin, Jordan, 2009. "Priorities for realizing the potential to increase agricultural productivity and

growth in Western and Central Africa:," IFPRI discussion papers 876, International Food Policy

Research Institute (IFPRI).

A. Bailey & S. Davidova & P. Hazell (2009)Introduction to the special issue "small farms: decline or

persistence?" Agricultural Economics, vol 40, issue s1

M. Lipton and R.Longhurst, 1989, New seeds and poor people, Allen and Unwin.

I. Singh, 1990, The great ascent, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Cleaver, K., 1993. "A Strategy to Develop Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa and a Focus for the World

Bank," Papers 203, World Bank - Technical Papers.

Larson, Donald F; Otsuka, Keijiro; Kajisa, Kei; Estudillo, Jonna; Diagne, Aliou. (2010) Can Africa

replicate Asia's green revolution in rice ? The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series: 5478.

2010.

Case studies

C. Eicher, ‘Zimbabwe’s maize-based green revolution; conditions for replication’, World Development, vol

23(1995), 805-818.

‘Maize is life: Malawi’s delayed green revolution’, World Development, vol. 23(1995).

P. Mosley, ‘The African green revolution as a pro-poor policy instrument’, Journal of International

Development, vol. 14(August 2002), 695-725.

P.Mosley, A.Suleiman, and Blessing,C (2007),Escape routes from the rural poverty trap: evidence from

three African countries, unpublished (can be obtained from one of the authors).

Matshe, I. (2009) Boosting Smallholder Production for Food Security: Some Approaches and Evidence

from Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Agrekon. Vol. 48 (4). p 483-511. December 2009.

Zerfu, Daniel; Larson, Donald F. (2010) Incomplete markets and fertilizer use: evidence from Ethiopia.

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The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series: 5235. 2010.

Canagarajah, Sudharshan; van Diesen, Arthur. (2011) The Poverty Reduction Strategy Approach Six

Years On: An Examination of Principles and Practice in Uganda. Development Policy Review. Vol. 29

(0). p S135-56. Supplement January 2011

Cunguara, Benedito; Darnhofer, Ika. (2011) Assessing the Impact of Improved Agricultural Technologies

on Household Income in Rural Mozambique. Food Policy. Vol. 36 (3). p 378-90. June 2011.

Global financial/food crisis and LDCs

IMF-International Monetary Fund (2009), The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-

Income Countries, Washington D. C., International Monetary Fund.

Headey, Derek D., 2010. "Rethinking the global food crisis," IFPRI discussion papers 958, International

Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Sen, Kunal. (2011) 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall': The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries:

Commentary. New Political Economy. Vol. 16 (3). p 399-413. July 2011

Ackello-Ogutu, Chris. (2011) Managing Food Security Implications of Food Price Shocks in Africa.

Journal of African Economies. Vol. 20 (0). p i100-141. Supplement 1 2011.

Ivanic, Maros; Martin, Will; Zaman, Hassan. (2011) Estimating the short-run poverty impacts of the 2010-

11 surge in food prices. The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper Series: 5633. 2011.

Websites for important information on African Green Revolution:

World Bank, World Development Report 2008 (was dedicated to the state of world agriculture and how to

move it forward)

Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN (FAO) especially "The Green Revolution in Asia: Lessons

for Africa", Hira Jhamtani, FAO 2010 (http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/al134e/al134e02.pdf)

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA): http://www.agra-alliance.org/

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) (the oldest research institute for

agriculture, particularly its research on HYVs in wheat, etc was responsible for the Asian Green Revolution

in the 60s and 70s along with the Rockfeller Foundation…at the moment one of the private main funders is

Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

IFAD, Rural poverty report 2001, Rome; International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Lecture 13: Rural markets and institutions (3): Credit and Financial markets

(microfinance)

Basu (1997), chapter 11-14

Debraj (1998), chapter 12 - 15

Bardhan and Udry (1999), chapter 6-9

Further reading: D. Hulme and P. Mosley, Finance against Poverty, 2 vols. Routledge, 1996.

Complete issue of Small Enterprise Development, vol 12 (March 2001), on microinsurance.

Special issue of Journal of International Development, vol. 16:3 (Feb 2004) on wider impacts of

microfinance.

A. Hollis and A. Sweetman, ‘Microcredit: what can we learn from the past?’, World Development, vol.

26(1998), 783-791.

P. Mosley and D. Hulme, ‘Microenterprise finance; is there a conflict between growth and poverty

alleviation?’ World Development, vol. 26(1998), 783-791.

J. Morduch, ‘The microfinance promise’, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 37(Dec 1999), 1569-1615.

J. Morduch, ‘The microfinance schism’, World Development, vol. 28:4 (April 2000), 617-631.

M. Harper, Profit for the poor; cases in micro-finance, London; Intermediate Technology Publications.

Conning, Jonathan & Udry, Christopher, 2007. "Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries,"

Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Elsevier

Gutierrez-Goiria, Jorge; Goitisolo, Beatriz. (2011), Profitability and Social Performance of Microfinance

Institutions: Empirical Evidence of Relations between Different Types of Variables., Revista de

Economia Mundial. Vol. 0 (27). p 189-214. 2011.

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Pokhriyal, A. K; Ghildiyal, Vipin. (2011), Progress of Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: "A Critical

Analysis of SHG-Bank Linkage Program in India". International Journal of Economics and Finance. Vol.

3 (2). p 255-62. May 2011.

Hermes, Niels; Lensink, Robert. (2011) Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability. World

Development. Vol. 39 (6). p 875-81. June 2011.

D'Espallier, Bert; Guerin, Isabelle; Mersland, Roy. (2011) Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A

Global Analysis. World Development. Vol. 39 (5). p 758-72. May 2011

Ghosh, Suman; Van Tassel, Eric. (2011) Microfinance and Competition for External Funding. Economics

Letters. Vol. 112 (2). p 168-70. August 2011.

Rossel-Cambier, Koen. (2011) Understanding the Dynamics of Product Diversification on Microfinance

Performance Outcomes: A Case Study in Barbados. ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Working Papers

CEB: 11-008. p 40 p. 2011

Berhane, Guush; Gardebroek, Cornelis. (2011) Does Microfinance Reduce Rural Poverty? Evidence Based

on Household Panel Data from Northern Ethiopia. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 93

(1). p 43-55. January 2011.

Karlan, Dean; Valdivia, Martin. (2011) Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on

Microfinance Clients and Institutions. Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 93 (2). p 510-27. May

2011.

Annim, Samuel Kobina. (2011) Sensitivity of Loan Size to Lending Rates Evidence from Ghana's

Microfinance Sector. World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), Working

Papers: UNU-WIDER Working Paper WP2011/03. p 31 pages. 2011.

Part III: Policy issues and new perspectives

Lecture 14-15: industrialization, vicious circle, and big push: Back to the future

Basu (1997), chapter 2-6

Debraj (1998), chapter 5, chapters 16-17

Bahrdan and Udry (1999), chapter 12 &16

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 2, 4

Further Reading: P. Rosenstein- Rodan, ‘Problems of industrialisation of eastern and south-eastern Europe’, Economic

Journal, vol 53(1943)

T. Scitovsky, ‘Two concepts of external economies’, Journal of political Economy, 1954. Also in

Agarwala and Singh (4), pages 295-309.

K. Murphy, A. Shleifer and A. Vishny, ‘Industrialisation and the big push’, Journal of Political Economy,

vol. 97(1989), 1003-1026.

P. Krugman, ‘Towards a counter-counterrevolution in development theory’, Proceedings of the Annual

World Bank Conference in Development Economics for 1992 (special issue of the World Bank Economic

Review for 1993), 15-48.

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Lecture 16: Human capital, labour and gender inequality

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Meier and Rauch (2000), chapter 5

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FAO’s sustainable development section http://www.fao.org/nr/nr-home/en/

UNFPA’s sustainability section http://www.unfpa.org/pds/sustainability.htm

UNDP’s environment and energy section http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/

Lectures 18. The political economy of development: governance,conflict and inequality

Bahrdan and Udry (1999), chapter 17

Mier and Rauch (2000), chapter 8 & 9

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Basu (1997), chapter 5-6

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Note that the schedule of topics may be altered.