| Part I |
| 1-3 |
I - Introduction: Poverty and Inequality |
Required Readings
Birdsall, Nancy. "Life is Unfair: Inequality in the World." Foreign Policy (Summer 1998): 76-84 (rest optional).
Polak, Ben, and Jeffrey G. Williamson. "Poverty, Policy, and Industrialization in the Past." Chapter 10 in Including the Poor. Edited by Michael Lipton and Jacques van der Gaag. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1993, pp. 219-246. Proceedings of a Symposium Organized by the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Berry, Albert. "Methodological and Data Challenges to Identifying the Impacts of Globalization and Liberalization (G&L) on Inequality." For UNRISD (the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development). November 2002, Sections 1.0-3.3, Section 4 [optional: Sections 3.4-3.5]. |
| Part II |
| 4 |
II - The Political Economy of Targeting |
Required Readings
Sen, Amartya. "The Political Economy of Targeting." Chapter 2 in Public Spending and the Poor: Theory and Evidence. Edited by Dominique van de Walle and Kimberly Nead. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, pp. 11-24.
Van de Walle, Dominique. "Targeting Revisited." The World Bank Research Observer 13, 2 (August 1998): 231-48.
Recommended Readings
Skocpol, Theda. "Targeting within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States." In The Urban Underclass. Edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1991, pp. 411-436. |
| Part III |
| 5 |
III (A) - The Macro-Politics of Poverty-Reducing Programs |
Required Readings
Gibson, Edward L. "The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina." World Politics 49 (April 1997): 339-370.
Nelson, Joan M. "Poverty, Equity, and the Politics of Adjustment." In The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Edited by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 221-261. |
| 6-7 |
III (B) - The Politics of Inclusion |
Required Readings
Houtzager, Peter P. "Introduction: From Polycentrism to the Polity." Chapter 1 in Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion. Edited by Peter Houtzager and Mick Moore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. (Forthcoming)
Moore, Mick P. "Arguing the Politics of Inclusion." Chapter 10 in Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion. Edited by Peter Houtzager and Mick Moore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. (Forthcoming) |
| Part IV |
| 8 |
IV (A) - Policy Reform |
Required Readings
Fox, Jonathan. "When Does Reform Policy Influence Practice? Lessons from the Bankwide Resettlement Review." Chapter 9 in The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and Grassroots Movements. Edited by Jonathan Fox and L. David Brown. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 303-344.
Joshi, A. "The Origins of Forest Policy Reform," "A Third Narrative: Frontline Workers and the WBSFSA," and "Conclusions." In Roots of Change: Front Line Workers and Forest Policy Reform in West Bengal. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge, MA, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2000, pp. 8-20, 177-242. |
| 9 |
IV (B) - Implementation |
Required Readings
Jain, Pankaj, and Mick Moore. "What Makes Micro-credit Programmes Effective? Fashionable Fallacies and Workable Realities." Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Working Paper 177. November, 2002. |
| 10 |
IV (C) - Implementation |
Required Readings
Tendler, Judith. "Reinventing the Projects." Chapter 2 in New lessons from Old Projects: the Workings of Rural Development in Northeast Brazil. Operations Evaluation Department. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1993, pp. xix-xxv, 14-33. |
| 11 |
IV (D) - Implementation |
Required Readings
Tendler, Judith. "Introduction" and "Preventive Health: The Case of the Unskilled Meritocracy." Chapters 1 and 2 in Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 1-45.
Bunker, Stephen. G. "Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Colonization Projects." In Underdeveloping the Amazon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 180-198. |
| Part V |
| 12-13 |
V (A) - Introduction |
Required Readings
Haggblade, Steven, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon. "Strategies for Stimulating Poverty-alleviating Growth in the Rural Nonfarm Economy in Developing Countries." EPTD (Environment and Production Technology Division [International Food Policy Research Institute]) Discussion Paper No. 92. November, 2002, Washington, D.C. Exec. summary, pp. iv-viii; Chapters 3-5, pp. 4-89.
Gotsch, Carl H. "Technical Change and the Distribution of Income in Rural Areas." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 54 (May 1972): 326-341. |
| 14-15 |
V (B) - The Informal Sector |
Required Readings
Portes, Alejandro. "The Informal Economy and It's Paradoxes." Chapter 17 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 426-449.
Maloney, William F. "Informality Revisited." World Bank, January, 2003. |
| 16-17 |
V (C) - Small and Medium Firms |
Required Readings
Mead, Donald C., and Carl Liedholm. "The Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries." World Development 26, 1 (1998): 61-74.
Levy, Brian, Albert Berry, and Jeffrey B. Nugent. Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999, Chapter 1 and 7, pp. 1-30, 261-277.
Schmitz, Hubert, and Bernard Musyck. "Industrial Districts in Europe--Policy Lessons for Developing Countries?" World Development 22, 6, (June 1994): 889-910.
Recommended Readings
Tendler, Judith, and Monica Alves Amorim. "Small Firms and Their Helpers: Lessons on Demand." World Development 24, 3 (1996): 407-426. |
| 18 |
V (D) - The Political-Economy of Small-Firm Initiatives |
Required Readings
Berger, Suzanne. "The Uses of the Traditional Sector in Italy: Why Declining Classes Survive." In The Petite Bourgeoisie. Edited by Frank Bechafer and Brian Elliot. N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1981, pp. 71-89.
Brown, Charles, James Hamilton, and James Medoff. "Images of Large and Small Employers," "The Economic Backdrop," "Generating New Jobs," "Wages: Bigger Means More," "Who Benefits?" and "A Fuller Picture." Chapters 1-5 and 10 in Employers Large and Small. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990, pp. 1-51, 88-91.
Recommended Readings
Tendler, Judith. "Small Firms, the Informal Sector, and the Devil's Deal." IDS Bulletin [Institute of Development Studies at Sussex] 33, 3 (July 2002). (PDF) |
| 19-20 |
V (E) - Workers, Worker Associations, and Poverty Reduction |
Required Readings
Rodrik, Dani. "Tensions between Trade and Domestic Social Arrangements," and "Implications." Chapters 3 and 5 in Has Globalization Gone Too Far?. Washington, D.C.: Institute of International Economics, 1997, pp. 29-48 (pp. 29-38 required, rest optional), pp. 69-85.
Locke, Richard M. "Industrial Adjustment and Industrial Relations in the Automobile Industry." Chapter 4 in Remaking the Italian Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 103-134.
Damiani, Octavio. "Effects on Employment, Wages, and Labor Standards of Non-traditional Export Crops in Northeast Brazil." Latin American Research Review 38, 1 (2003). (Forthcoming) |
| Part VI |
| 21-22 |
VI - Cooperatives and Other Forms of Collective Action |
Required Readings
Wade, Robert. "Common Property Resource Management in Southern Indian Villages." In Common Property Resource Management . Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1987, pp. 231-234, 248-253 (rest optional).
Tendler, Judith. "What To Think About Cooperatives: A Guide From Bolivia." In Direct to the Poor: Grassroots Development in Latin America. Edited by Sheldon Annis and Peter Hakim. Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988, pp. 85-116.
Bianchi, Tito. "Development Discontinuities: Leaders and Intermediaries in Cooperatives of Producers." Working Paper No. 166. Helsinki: WIDER (World Institute of Development Economics Research), October, 1999.
Healy, Kevin. "The Quinoa Trail: from South American Salt Flats to Western Health Food Stores." Chapter 7 in Llamas, Weavings and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development from the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, pp. 155-188. |
| Part VII |
| 23-24 |
VII - Decentralization and Poverty Reducing Programs |
Required Readings
Bardhan, Pranab. "Decentralization of Governance and Development." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 16, 4 (Fall 2002): 185-106.
Crook, Richard C., and James Manor. "Democratic Decentralization and Institutional Performance: Four Asian and African Experiences Compared." Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 33, 3 (November 1995): 309-334.
Tendler, Judith. "Decentralization, Participation, and Other Things Local." In Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 142-163. |
| Part VIII |
| 25-26 |
VIII - Non-Government Organizations |
Required Readings
Evans, Peter B. "Introduction: Development Strategies across the Public-Private Divide," and "Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy." World Development 24, 6 (June 1996): 1033-1037, and 1119-1132.
Tendler, Judith. "What Ever Happened to Poverty Alleviation?" World Development 17, 7 (1989): 1033-1044.
Recommended Readings
Herring, Ronald J. "Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds and the Poor: Mobilizing Around Genetically Modified Organisms in India." In Social Movements and Poverty in India. Edited by Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, 2003.
Skocpol, Theda. "How Americans Became Civic." In Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Edited by Morris Fiorina and Theda Skocpol. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, pp. 27-80. |
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