Reading List
Development Economics I, Autumn 2016
Lecture 1 Introduction into Development and Development Economics
Required:
 Chapter 1 of Todaro M.P. & Smith S.C. (2011). Economic Development, Addison-Wesley,
11th ed.
Optional:
 Chapter 2 of Todaro M.P. & Smith S.C. (2011). Economic Development, Addison-Wesley,
11th ed.
Lecture 2 and 3 Growth Theory I and II
Required:
 Chapters 4 and 18.3 of Aghion and Howitt, (2009). The Economics of Growth.
 Chapter 4 of Todaro M.P. & Smith S.C. (2011). Economic Development, Addison-Wesley,
11th ed.
Optional:
 Banerjee, A. and E. Duflo (2005). Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development
Economics.
Handbook
of
Economic
Growth,
Elsevier.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574068405010075
 Jones, C. (2015). The Facts of Economic Growth. Handbook of Macroeconomics vol 2.
http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/jones-facts040.pdf
 Rodrik, D. (2013). Unconditional convergence in manufacturing, Quarterly Journal of
Economics,
128
(1)
:165-204.
http://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/danirodrik/files/unconditional-convergence-in-manufacturing.pdf
 Newman, C. et al. (2016). Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of
Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging Asia. Oxford University Press.
https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/manufacturing-transformation
 Lin, J. & Chang H.-J. (2009). 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,
2009,
27
(5):
483-502.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETTRADE/Resources/InternalTraining/287823-1256848879189/LinChangeDPRDebateIndustrialPolicy.pdf
Lecture 4 Dual Economy and Structural Change
Required:
 Chapters 3 and 7 of Todaro M.P. & Smith S.C. (2011). Economic Development, AddisonWesley, 11th ed.
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Lecture 5 Poverty and Inequality
Required:
 Chapter 5 of Todaro M.P. & Smith S.C. (2011). Economic Development, Addison-Wesley,
11th ed.
Optional:
 Chapter 2 of Channing, A. & McKay, A. & Tarp F. (eds.) (2016). Growth and Poverty in SubSaharan Africa. Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/growthand-poverty-sub-saharan-africa
Lecture 6 Democracy and Development
Required:
 Lipset, S. M. (1959). Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and
Political Legitimacy, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 53, No. 1., pp. 69-105.
http://eppam.weebly.com/uploads/5/5/6/2/5562069/lipset1959_apsr.pdf
Optional:
 Boix, C. (2011). Democracy, Development, and the International System. American
Political Science Review 105 (4): 809-828. http://www.princeton.edu/~cboix/apsr-boix2011.pdf
Lecture 7 Health
Required viewing:

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/200-years-that-changed-the-world-bbc/
Required readings:

Komlos, J., & Snowdon, B. (2005). Measures of progress and other tall stories. World
Economics, 6(2), 87-135. http://www.world-economicsjournal.com/Measures%20of%20Progress%20and%20Other%20Tall%20Stories.details?A
ID=209
Optional readings:
 Bilger, B. (2004). The height gap. Why Europeans are getting taller and Americans aren´t.
The New Yorker, April 5th 2004. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/04/05/theheight-gap
 Chapters 1-3 of Deaton, A. (2013). The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of
Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Lecture 8 Social Protection Systems
Required:
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
Niño-Zarazúa, M., A. Barrientos, S. Hickey, and D. Hulme (2012). Social Protection in
Sub-Saharan Africa: Getting the Politics Right. World Development. 40 (1): 163-176.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1100074X
Optional:
 Sen, A. (1986). Chapter 22 Social choice theory. Handbook of Mathematical Economics.
K. J. Arrow and M. D. Intriligator, Elsevier. Volume 3: 1073-1181.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1573438286030047
 Niño-Zarazúa, M (forthcoming) Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera and the raise
of Social Assistance in Latin America, in Anand P, et al (Eds) Handbook of BRICS and
Emerging Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 Kabeer, N. and H. Waddington (2015). 'Economic impacts of conditional cash transfer
programmes: a systematic review and meta-analysis'. Journal of Development
Effectiveness. 7 (3): 290-303.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19439342.2015.1068833
Lecture 9 Rural Economy and Agriculture
Required:
 Chapter 9 of Todaro M.P. & Smith S.C. (2011). Economic Development, Addison-Wesley,
11th ed.
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.
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0195305191.001.0001/acprof9780195305197-chapter-8
 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.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X09000485
Lecture 10 Climate Change, Energy and Development
Required:
 Parts I and II (it is recommended to go through the rest of the report for essential points)
of Stern, N. (2007). The Economics of Climate Change: the Stern Review. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
http://mudancasclimaticas.cptec.inpe.br/~rmclima/pdfs/destaques/sternreview_report
_complete.pdf
Optional:
 Mattoo, Aaditya and Arvind Subramanian. 2012. Greenprint: A New Approach to
Cooperation on Climate Change. Washington: Center for Global Development.
http://www.cgdev.org/publication/9781933286679-greenprint-new-approachcooperation-climate-change
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
Maslin, Mark. (2009). Global warming: a very short introduction. Oxford, New York,
Oxford University Press, 2009 (3rd Ed).
http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780199548248.001.00
01/actrade-9780199548248
Lecture 11 Extractive Industries and Development
Required:
 Venables, A. J. (2016). Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So
Difficult? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30 (1), 161–184.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.30.1.161
Lecture 12 Gender
Required:
 Duflo, Esther (2012). Women empowerment and economic development. Journal of
Economic Literature, 50(4), 1051-1079. http://economics.mit.edu/files/7417
 Jayachandran, Seema (2015). The roots of gender inequality in developing countries.
Annual Review of Economics, 7, 63-88.
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115404
Optional:
 Bertrand, M. (2011). New perspectives on gender. Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol.
4b, 1545-1592. http://www.fiwi.unijena.de/wfwmedia/Lehre/GenderEconomics/Bertrand+2011+New+Perspectives+on+Ge
nder+In+Handbook+of+Labor+Economics+4+B-p-454.pdf
Lecture 13 Labour Markets
Required:

Campbell, Duncan & Ahmed, Ishraq (2013). The labour market in developing countries.
Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development
http://www.iza.org/conference_files/worldb2012/campbell_d2780.pdf
Optional:
 Heath, Rachel & Mushfiq Mobarak, A. (2015). Manufacturing growth and the lives of
Bangladeshi women. Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 115(C), pages 1-15.
http://faculty.som.yale.edu/mushfiqmobarak/papers/garments.pdf
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