Actualités et agenda
Nos formations
Présentation
There are no specific requirements for this course. However, reading the course material before class will help understanding.
The course provides an analytical lens to evaluate contemporary development questions using theoretical and empirical insights. We will emphasize institutions and institutional change and how the choice of economic institutions influences development outcomes. In pursuing this exercise, we shall also emphasize the centrality of economic and political institutions and their origins. The development process is complex, with several forward and backward linkages with different spheres of society, such as culture and norms, environment, and globalization. The course brings some of these issues to the fore and furthers the understanding of the contemporary development course.
Unit 1: Meaning and definition of development
Unit 2: Formal and informal institutions and role institutions and economic development
Unit 3: Poverty and Inequality
Unit 4: Globalization and Development
Unit 5: Environment, natural resource extraction and development
Unit 6: Agriculture and Development
Unit 7: Urbanization and Uneven Spatial Development
Unit 8: Conclusion and Emerging Issues (Sustainable Development)
Modalités
Lectures: weekly lecture (2 hours)
Seminars (TD): weekly seminar (2 hours)
Modalité d'évaluation
30% seminar presentations
70% term paper
Ressources
<b>Books </b>|| [1] Aghion, P., & Durlauf, S. (Eds.). (2005). <i>Handbook of economic growth</i>. Elsevier.<b> </b>|| [2] Carmody, P. (2019). <i>Development theory and practice in a changing world</i>. Routledge.|| [3] Desai, V., Potter, R. (eds.) (2014) <i>The companion to development studies </i>(third edition), London, Routledge.|| [4] McMichael, P. (2017) <i>Development and social change: a global perspective</i>. SAGE Publications (6th edition).|| [5] Robinson, J. (2006), <i>Ordinary cities. Between modernity and development</i>, London, Routledge. Trigilia,|| [6] Robinson, J. A., & Acemoglu, D. (2012). <i>Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty</i> (pp. 45 47). London: Profile.|| [7]Selwyn, B. (2014) <i>The global development crisis</i>. Cambridge: Polity Press.|| <b> </b>|| <b>Articles </b>|| Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2005). Institutions as a fundamental cause of long-run growth. <i>Handbook of economic growth</i>, <i>1</i>, 385-472.|| Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation. <i>American Economic Review</i>, <i>91</i>(5),13691401.|| Sachs, J. D. (2012). Reply to Acemoglu and Robinson’s response to my book review. <i>Review of Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Jeffrey Sachs</i>.||