Prof James Putzel CON.8.03 and Dr Rajesh Venugopal CON.8.09

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, MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po) and MSc in Urbanisation and Development. This course is not available as an outside option.

Not available to students enrolled on DV400.

The course integrates the concepts and perspectives of a range of disciplines to consider major trends of development and change in modern history and key issues and debates in international development.  With reference to comparative historical experience, 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).

20 hours of Lectures shared with the DV400 MT lectures and 15 hours of seminars. A 1 hour and 30 minutes revision lecture in the LT.

There will be a reading week in Week 6.

Students will give at least one class presentation, and submit one formative essay of 2000 words.

The following are recommended basic readings for the course:

A. Kohli, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Cambridge, 2004).

D Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, 2008)

A Sen, Development as Freedom (Anchor, 1999)

Exam (75%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.
Essay (25%, 2000 words) in the LT.