Development Economics
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The unit seeks to achieve several skills at different levels. General competence, defined independent ability to criticize
written and orally, to work in groups and individually. Develop equally a paper with a pre-scientific level, which implies
introduction to research as a critical review of the literature (scientific) data collection and processing, and finally
academic writing at an introductory level.
Aims and objectives:
1. To know the main theories of economic development
2. To analyse the reality using this theories and the recent past with the scope of these theories
3. To understand the micro scale of development problems (RCT Banerjee & Duflo approach)
4. To understand the role of Global Governance of development problems
5. To acquire competences of oral presentation and discussion of a pre-scientific paper
6. To research and use English as an working tool
7. To know the labour market and its opportunities for development area studies.
Contents
[ERASMUS Programme]
Academic Year 2013/2014
Assistant Professor: Miguel Rocha de Sousa; Office: CES 256;
e-mail: mrsousa@uevora.pt or miguelrochasousa@gmail.com
Office Hours: Office 256 CES: 10h-13h on Tuesday or by appointment via email or in class.
DETAILED PROGRAMME
1 A DEFINITION OF CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT
1.1 The concepts of Development and Underdevelopment
1.2 The Purpose of Development Economics
1.3 The Indicators
1.3.1 The monetary and economic indicators
1.3.2 The quality indicators
1.3.3 The search for a synthetic indicator
1.4 What are the indicators
1.4.1 Measure and neutrality
1.4.2 The necessity of the measure
2 THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT
2.1 The development as a linear process
2.1.1 Underdevelopment as a delay in Development
2.1.2 The growth stages of W. W. Rostow
2.1.3 Models for growth
2.2 The Development and structural change
2.2.1 The creative destruction of J. Schumpeter
2.2.2 The Latin American structuralism
2.2.3 The model A. Lewis
2.3 The Product Development and Underdevelopment
2.3.1 The dual society. The model of cumulative causation of G. Myrdal
2.3.2 Imperialism and colonialism
2.3.3 The neo-colonialism and unequal exchange
2.4 The Basic Needs Approach
2.4.1 Basic needs
2.4.2 The man at the center of the problem
2.4.3 The ethical question
2.5 The Neo-Classical approach
2.5.1 The classical model
2.5.2 A New Political Economy
2.5.3 Counter-revolution or “apoloziging“
2.6 The Institutional Approach
2.6.1 Definition of institutions
2.6.2 The issue of cultural blockade
2.6.3 The nature of political regimes
2.7 The New Economic Geography
2.7.1 The role of natural conditions
2.7.2 The problem of interiority with J. Sachs
3 THE RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT
3.1 The human resources
3.1.1 Demographics and Development
3.1.2 Health and education
3.1.3 Labour
3.2 The financial resources and capital
3.2.1 The capital and domestic savings
3.2.2 External funding
3.2.3 External Debt Problem
4 THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES '
4.1 The Market and the State
4.1.1 The advantages of regulation by the market and preferred by the State
4.1.2 The State's cooperation with the market
4.2 The Agriculture and Development
4.2.1 Natural conditions for the practice of agriculture
4.2.2 The agrarian structure
4.2.3 Land Reform and Green Revolution
4.2.4 Export crops versus crops for internal food
4.3 The industrialization
4.3.1 Growth Balanced and unbalanced growth
4.3.2 The role of agriculture in industrialization
4.3.3 The choice of the type of industries
4.3.4 The choice of Technologies
4.4 The Trade and Development
4.4.1 Strategies face inwards or import substitution
4.4.2 Strategies facing outwards or export led
4.5 Strategies Allocation of Income
4.5.1 Distribute produce income or wealth?
4.5.2 Distribution of inter-temporal performance: consume now or in the future?
4.6 The Institutional Change
4.6.1 The democratization of governance
4.6.2 Cultural change
4.7 The liberalization of economies
4.7.1 The liberal agenda
4.7.2 The stabilization and structural adjustment
5 NEW CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPMENT
5.1 Environment and Development
5.1.1 The Development destroyer of the environment
5.1.2 Underdevelopment producing environmental problems
5.1.3. Sustainable Development, Myth or Reality?
5.2 Globalization and Development
5.2.1 The meaning of globalization
5.2.2 Globalization and Development opportunities
5.3 The cultural shock and social unsustainability
5.3.1 The Westernization of the world refuses to development
5.3.2 The endogenous development plural
5.4 The Promotion of Human Rights as an Instrument of Development and Purpose
5.4.1 Human Rights and Economics
5.4.2 The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Teaching Methods
The lectures will be pro-active with oral expositions and with critical-analitical-deductive m ethod, fostering debate with
students. Besides, students on continous assessment have to present a short paper (pre-scientific) about a
development topic, written and orally within groups of 2 to 3 students.
Assessment rules:
A1) CA-Continuous Assessement – 2 Tests (40%*2) + Paper (20%) (On the tests a minimum of 7 Values is
demanded) 75% of lecture attendance is required for CA.
A2) Final Exam - 1 Final Exam (100%) 50% of lecture attendance is also required
B) last call exam: free access for those who failed on A1 or A2.
Exception rule of working students: There is no minimum attendance require.
Omitted cases: solved by the jury of the subject (using REI).
Assessment
ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION
Regime A: Continuous or mixed evaluation
- 2 written tests (2*30%)+ an oral group presentation in class(40%)
Regime B: Final Exam
- 1 final written exam (50%)+ an individual oral exam (50%)
Final Appeal exam (only written-100%).
Attendance to classes
Attendance to classes is highly recommended to have success in the subject.
For mixed evaluation: 75% attendance of all classes
For final exam: 50% attendance of all classes
Last appeal exam: No requirement of attendances.
Recommended Reading
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES
MANUALS AND OTHER REQUIRED READINGS
BANERJEE, A.; DUFLO, E. (2012), Poor Economics: Radically rethinking the way we fight poverty, Public Affairs, US [http://pooreconomics.com/]
CYPHER, J., DIETZ, J. (2004) The Process of Economic Development, Routledge, London and New York.
GHATAK, S. (2003) Introduction to Development Economics, Routledge, London and New York.
PERKINS, D., RADELET, S., SNODGRASS, D. GILLIS, M., ROEMER, M., (2001), Economics of Development, 5th ed., Norton, New York.
RAY, D. (2005) Development Economics, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
THIRLWALL, A. P. (2011), Economics of Development, 9th ed., Palgrave McMillan, London.
TODARO, M. P., SMITH, S. C. (2006), Economic Development, 9th ed., Pearson, Harlow
ESSENTIAL REPORTS
UNDP (UN Development Programme) Human Development Report, Message, Lisbon.
IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / World Bank) World Development Report. IBRD / The World Bank, Washington.
REFERENCE BOOKS FOR CERTAIN TOPICS
ACEMOGLU, D. ; ROBINSON, J. (2012) Why nations fail : The origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Deckle Edge, US. [http://whynationsfail.com/]
ASSIDON, E. (2002) Les Théories Économiques du Développement, La Découverte, Paris.
BARTOLI, H. (2000) Repenser le Développement, Economica, Paris.
BEHRMAN, J., CHENERY, H., SRINIVASAN, T. N. (eds) (1995) Handbook in Development Economics, North Holland, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
CHANG, H. J. (2004) Reclaiming Development: An Economic Policy Handbook for Activists and Policymakers, Zed Books, London.
CHANG, H. J. (ed) (2003) Rethinking Development Economics, Anthem Press, London.
COMELIAU, C. (2000) Les Impasses de la Modernité, Seuil, Paris.
DOCKES, P., ROSIER, B. (2005), L'Histoire Ambiguë, croissance et développement en question, PUF, Paris (1ª edição de 1988)
LACOSTE, Y. (ed) (1993) Dictionnaire de Géopolitique, Paris: Flammarion.
LANDES, D. (2002) A Riqueza e a Pobreza das Nações, 5ª edição Gradiva, Lisboa.
LATOUCHE, S. (1986), Faut-il Refuser le Développement?, PUF, Paris.
MEIER, G., STIGLITZ, J. (eds) (2002) Frontiers of Development Economics, IBRD/The World Bank, Washington.
MEIER, G., SEERS, D. (eds) (1984) Pioneers in Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
NORTH, D. (2005) Understanding the Process of Economic Change, PrincetonUniversity Press.
NORGAARD, R. (1994) Development Betrayed - the end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future, Routledge, London and New York.
PASSET, R. (1996), L 'Économique et le Vivant, Economica, Paris.
PERROUX, F. (1981), Pour une Philosophie du Nouveau Développement, Aubier: Les Presses de l'UNESCO, Paris.
RIST, G. (1996) Le Développement: histoire d’une croyance occidentale, Presses de Sciences Po, Paris.
SACHS, W. (ed) (1995) The Development Dictionary: a Guide to Knowledge as Power, Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, Zed Books, London.
SACHS, J. (2006) O Fim da Pobreza, Casa das Letras.
SEN, A. K. (1999) Development as Freedom, Alfred Knopf, New York.
SEN, A. K. (1999) Pobreza e Fomes. Um Ensaio sobre Direitos e Privações, Ed. Terramar, Lisboa.
STREETEN, P. (1995), Thinking About Development, CambridgeUniversity Press, Cambridge.
WILBER, C. K., JAMESON, K. P. (eds) (1992) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 5th edition, Mc Graw-Hill, New York.
WILLIS, K. (2005) Theories and Practices of Development, Routledge, London.
Scientific Journals
Developing Economies, Development and Change, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Development Quarterly, Environment and Development Economics, Finance and Development, Human Development Journal, International Development Planning Review, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Review of International Political Economy, Review of Social Economy, Revue d’Économie du Développement, Revue Tiers-Monde, Studies in Comparative International Development, Third World Quarterly, World Bank Economic Review, World Development.
SITES
WB: http://www.worldbank.org, CAD: http://www.oecd.org/cad, UNCTAD: http://www.unctad.org, FAO: http://www.fao.org, IMF: http://www.imf.org, IPAD: http://www.ipad.mne.gov.pt, ILO: http://www.ilo.org, WTO: http://wto.org, UN: http://www.un.org, OXFAM: http://www.oxfam.org.uk, PNUD: http://www.undp.org, UNICEF: http://unicef.org, UNRISD: http://www.unrisd.org, USAID, http://www.usaid.gov, OIKOS: http://www.oikos.pt
Teaching Staff
- Manuel Couret Pereira Branco [responsible]
