Dr Rajesh Venugopal CON 6.08

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Health and International Development and MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies. This course is available on the MSc in Anthropology and Development, MSc in Environment and Development and MSc in Urbanisation and Development. This course is not available as an outside option.

Not available to students enrolled on DV400 & DV431.

This course provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to development studies. We explore the role of states and markets in development and/underdevelopment, colonial legacies, the political economy of growth and redistribution, and the role of politics and power in development. We examine key issues in development such as: the record of pro-market reforms; the experience of developmental states; and the challenges to development thinking and practice presented by feminist theory, environmental sustainability, globalisation and new patterns of global inequality (key issues may change from year to year).

10 x 1.5 hour lectures and 10 x 1.5 hour seminars. in the MT.

Students will submit one formative essay of 1500 words.

The following are recommended basic readings for the course:

A Sen, Development as Freedom (Anchor, 1999).

Chang, H.J. (2002), Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (London: Anthem Press).

Online assessment (100%) in the LT.