Hecer unu wider dev econ i 2015 reading list 20150904

Reading List (version 04.09.2015)

31E15000 Development Economics I, Autumn 2015 Link to readings for which there is no direct link provided: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xhblmuzd3rrx7ox/AAD83z-NDOgEhUHn3EVnnmzRa?dl=0

Lecture 1 Introduction into Development and Development Economics Required:  M.P. Todaro and S.C. Smith, 2011. “Economic Development”, Addison-Wesley, 11th edition, Chapter 1 Optional:  M.P. Todaro and S.C. Smith, 2011. “Economic Development”, Addison-Wesley, 11th edition, Chapter 2

Lecture 2 and 3 Growth Theory I and II Required:  Aghion and Howitt: The Economics of Growth, 2009: Ch. 1,2,4 and 18.3

Optional:  Banerjee and Duflo (2005): Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics. In Steve Durlauf and Philippe Aghion, (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Elsevier Science Ltd. North Holland: 2005 Vol. 1A, pp. 473-552.

Available at: http://economics.mit.edu/files/521

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Lecture 4 Dual Economy and Structural Change Required:  M.P. Todaro and S.C. Smith, 2009. “Economic Development”, Addison-Wesley, 10th edition, Chapter 3 (pages 115-122) 

K. Basu, 1997. ”Analytical Development Economics”, MIT Press, Chapter 7

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M.P. Todaro and S.C. Smith, 2009. “Economic Development”, Addison-Wesley, 10th edition, Chapter 7 (pages 342-354)

Lecture 5 Modern Theories of Development (Multiple Equilibria) Required:  Todaro-Smith: Chapter 4 Optional: 

Lin, Justin, and Ha‐Joon Chang. "Should Industrial Policy in Developing Countries Conform to Comparative Advantage or Defy it? A Debate Between Justin Lin and Ha‐ Joon Chang." Development Policy Review 27.5 (2009): 483-502.

Lecture 6 Poverty and Inequality I (Measurement) Required:  Haughton, J. and Kahndker, S.R. 2009. Handbook on Poverty and Inequality. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

Available at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/11985 Optional:  Deaton A. and Zaidi S. 2002. Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis. Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper No. 135. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

Available at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/14101 

Ravallion M. 1998. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice. Living Standards Measurement Study Paper 133. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

Available at: http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/02/24/000094946 _99031911030079/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf Page 2 of 5

Notes on multidimentional poverty  Ravallion, M. (2011), ‘On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty’. Policy Research Working Paper 5580. Washington, D.C: World Bank.

Available at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/3346/WPS5580.pdf 

Alkire S., and Robles R. 2015. Multidimensional Poverty Index - 2015: Brief Methodological Note and Results. OPHI, University of Oxford.

Available at: http://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Global-Multidimensional-Poverty-Index-20158pp-Digital.pdf?a76f2d

Lecture 7 Poverty and Inequality II (Impact on Development) Required: 

Ravallion, M. (2001). 'Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages'. World Development. 29 (11): 1803-1815.

Optional: 

Banerjee, A.V. and E. Duflo (2003). 'Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?' Journal of Economic Growth. 8 (3): 267-299.

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Forbes, K.J. (2000). 'A Reassessment of the Relationship between Inequality and Growth'.

The American Economic Review. 90 (4): 869-887.

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Niño-Zarazúa, M., L. Roope, and F. Tarp (2015). 'Global inequality: Relatively lower, absolutely higher'. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

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Alesina, A. and R. Perotti (1994). 'The Political Economy of Growth: A Critical Survey of the Recent Literature'. The World Bank Economic Review. 8 (3): 351-371.

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Banerjee, A.V. and E. Duflo (2004). 'Growth theory through the lens of development economics'. MIT Department of Economics Working Paper Series. Cambridge, M.A.: MIT.

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Barro, R.J. (2000). 'Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries'. Journal of Economic Growth. 5 (1): 5-32.

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Gebregziabher, F. and M. Niño-Zarazúa (2014). 'Social spending and aggregate welfare in developing and transition economies'. WIDER Working Paper Series. 2014/082.

Available at http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2014/en_GB/wp2014-082/

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Lecture 8 Health The lecture will provide a brief overview of global health and development and then focus on the specific topic of economics and human biology research.

BEFORE THE LECUTRE: Required viewing: (The video clips are each just a few minutes long)  

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/200-years-that-changed-the-world-bbc/ http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-river-of-myths/

Required: 

“The height gap-Why Europeans are getting taller and Americans aren´t” The New Yorker article from April 5th 2004 issue by Burkhard Bilger on John Komlos http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/04/05/the-height-gap

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Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation. 2013. Dean T Jamison, Lawrence H Summers, George Alleyne, Kenneth J Arrow, Seth Berkley, Agnes Binagwaho, Flavia Bustreo, David Evans, Richard G A Feachem, Julio Frenk, Gargee Ghosh, Sue J Goldie, Yan Guo, Sanjeev Gupta, Richard Horton, Margaret E Kruk, Adel Mahmoud, Linah K Mohohlo, Mthuli Ncube, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, K Srinath Reddy, Helen Saxenian, Agnes Soucat, Karen H Ulltveit-Moe, Gavin Yamey. The Lancet, Vol. 382, No. 9908, p1898–1955 http://www.thelancet.com/commissions/global-health-2035 The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Angus Deaton, Ch.1-3

Lecture 9 Democracy and Development Required:  Seymour Martin Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Mar., 1959), pp. 69-105.

Available at: http://eppam.weebly.com/uploads/5/5/6/2/5562069/lipset1959_apsr.pdf

Optional:  Przeworski, Adam, and Fernando Limongi. "Modernization: Theories and facts." World politics 49.02 (1997): 155-183.

Available at: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~mnaoi/page4/POLI227/files/page1_13.pdf

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Lecture 10 Gender Required:  

Duflo, E. (2012). Women empowerment and economic development. Journal of Economic Literature, 50(4), 1051-1079.

Jayachandran, S. (2015). The roots of gender inequality in developing countries. Annual Review of Economics, 7, 63-88.

Optional: 

Bertrand, M. (2011). New perspectives on gender. Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4b, 1545-1592.

Lecture 11 Rural Economy and Agriculture Required:  Todaro-Smith: Chapter 9 Optional:   

Eswaran, M., & Kotwal, A. (2006). The role of agriculture in development. In Banerjee, Benabou and Mookherjee (eds.) Understanding Poverty, Chapter 8, 111-123. OUP. IFAD (2010) Rural Poverty Report 2011, http://www.ifad.org/rpr2011/index.htm Place, F. (2009). Land tenure and agricultural productivity in Africa: a comparative analysis of the economics literature and recent policy strategies and reforms. World Development, 37(8), 1326-1336.

Lecture 12 Labor Markets Required: 

Campbell, Duncan, and Ishraq Ahmed. "The labour market in developing countries."

Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development (2013). Introduction.

Available at: http://www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2012/campbell_d2780.pdf Optional: 

Cahuc, Pierre, and André Zylberberg. "Labor Economics" (2004). MIT Press. Ch 1.

Available at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262033169_sch_0001.pdf

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