Development Policy

Chau Van Thanh

Required Readings:

 1. Perkins et al. 2006. Chapter 1. 

Suggested Readings:

1. Michael P. Todaro and  Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development, Chapter 1: Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective  (10th Edition), London: Pearson Education, 2009.

Development Myth 2: Migration results in a “brain drain” and therefore should be restricted. 

Dinh Vu Trang Ngan

Required Readings:

1. Corydon Ireland (2010) “Brain Gain: China Embraces Valuable Returnees, Harvard Gazette, July 20.

Suggested Readings:

1. John Page and Sonia Plaza (2006) “Migration Remittances and Development: A Review of Global Evidence, Journal of African Economies, 15:2, p. 245-336. http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/suppl_2/245.full

2. Michel Beine, Frederic Docquier and Cecily Oden-Defoort (2011) “A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain,” World Development, in press.

Dinh Vu Trang Ngan

Required Readings:

1. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2011), Poor Economics, A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Public Affairs. Chapter 4: “Top of the Class.”

Suggested Readings:

1. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2010), “The Spirit Level, Why Equality is Better for Everyone,” Chapter 8, “Education Performance,” Penguin Books

2. Glewwe and Kremer (2006), “Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries,” Handbook of the Economics of Education, eds: Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch, North-Holland.

Development Myth 4: Poor countries cannot afford to provide universal access to health care

Dinh Vu Trang Ngan

Required Readings: 

1. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2011), Poor Economics, A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Public Affairs. Chapter 3: “Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health.” 

Suggested Readings:

1. Eddy van Doorslaer, et al. (2006) “Effect of Payments for Health Care on Poverty Estimates in 11 Countries in Asia: An Analysis of Household Survey Data, Lancet, 368, 1357-64.

2. Hsiao et al. (2007), “Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations,” WBI Development Studies, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. http://harvardschoolofpublichealth.com/

Development Myth 5: Economic growth is all that is needed to reduce poverty.

Jonathan Pincus

Required Readings:

1. Wuyts, Marc (2011) “Growth, Employment and the Productivity-Wage Gap: Revisiting the Growth-Poverty Nexus,” Development and Change, 42:1, 437-447.

Suggested Readings: 

1. Dollar, David and Aart Kraay (2002) “Growth IS Good for the Poor,” http://www-wds.worldbank.org/

2. Foster, James and Miguel Szekely (2008) “Is Income Growth Good for the Poor? Tracking Low Incomes Using General Means,” International Economic Review, 49:4, p. 1143-1172. 

Development Myth 6: Within-country income distribution gets worse as countries get richer.

Jonathan Pincus

Required Readings:

1. Bowman, Kirk (1997) “Should the Kuznets Curve Be Relied on to Produce Equalizing Growth? Evidence from Post-1950 Development,” World Development, 25:1, pp. 127-143.

Suggested Readings:

 1. Szekely, M. and Marianne Hilgert (1999) “What’s Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data,” Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Working Paper No. 409, (December), http://www.iadb.org/

Development Myth 7: Industrial policy is impossible because governments cannot pick winners

Dinh Vu Trang Ngan

Required Readings:

1. Dani Rodrik (2008), “Normalizing Industrial Policy,” Commission on Growth and Development, World Bank Working Paper No. 3.

Development Myth 8: R&D is for the rich countries

 Dinh Vu Trang Ngan

Required Readings:

1. Edward Steinfeld (2010), Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West, Oxford University Press. Chapter 6: “Playing to Win? China’s Advance into High-Tech Research and Development”

Suggested reading:

1. Athukorala and Kohpaiboon (2010), “Globalization of R&D by US-based multinational enterprises,” Research Policy 39, 1335-1347.

Development Myth 9: Small is beautiful

Jonathan Pincus

Required Readings:

 1. Thorstein Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt  and Ross Levine (2005) “SMEs, Growth and Poverty,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 11224, March,http://www.nber.org/papers/w11224.pdf?new_window=1

Suggested Readings:

1. Bennett Harrison (1994) “The Myth of Small Firms as the Predominant Job Generators,” Economic Development Quarterly, vol. 8, p. 13-18.

 Development Myth 10: “The World is Flat.”

Jonathan Pincus

Required Readings:

1. Peter Nolan, Jin Zhang and Chunhang Liu (2008) “The Global Business Revolution, the Cascade Effect, and the Challenge for Firms from Developing Countries,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32, p. 29-47.

Suggested Readings:

1. Daniel Pink (2005) “Why the World is Flat,” Wired, May.

2. Thomas Friedman (2005) The 0World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 

Development Myth 11: The world is running out of natural resources

 Jonathan Pincus

Required Readings:

1. Perkins et al. 2006. Chapter 20

Suggested Readings:

1. Howarth, Richard B. (2007) “Towards an operational sustainability criterion,” Ecological Economics, 63, pp. 656–663.

Development Myth 12: A large natural resource endowment is a curse: exporters of natural resources grow more slowly than other countries

Jonathan Pincus

Required Readings:

 1. Wright, Gavin and Jesse Czelusta (2004) “The Myth of the Resource Curse,” Challenge, 47:2, 6-38. 

Suggested Readings:

1. Van der Ploeg, Frederick (2011) “Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing? Journal of Economic Literature, XLIX(2): 366-420.

2. Andrew Williams (2011) “Shining a Light on the Resource Curse: An Emprical Analysis of the Relationship Between Natural Resources, Transparency and Economic Growth,” World Development, in press.

Tran Tien Khai

Required Reading:

 1. Bruce F. Johnston and John W. Mellor (1961) “The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development,” American Economic Review, 51:4, p. 566-593.

Suggested Readings:

1. Massoud Karshenas (2001) “Agriculture and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 25, 315-342.

Tran Tien Khai

Required Readings:

1. Timmer, Peter C (1999) “The Role of the State in Agricultural Development,” in C. Peter Timmer (ed.). Agriculture and the State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Suggested Readings:

1. Colin MacAndrews, Alex Brillantes, and Ammar Siamwalla (2001) “Devolution and Decentralization” in Ammar Siamwalla (ed.), The Evolving Roles of the State, Private, and Local Actors in Rural Asia, Study of Rural Asia: Volume 5, Oxford University Press.

2. Dorward, Andrew, Jonathann Kydd, Jamie Morrision and Ian Urey (2004) “A Policy Agenda for Pro – Poor Agricultural Growth.” World Development, 32:1, 73 – 89.

3. Hart, Gillian (1985) “Agrarian Change in the Context of State Patronage,” In Agrarian Transformation: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia, Berkeley: University of California Press.

 Tran Tien Khai

Required Readings:

1. Deininger, Klaus (2003) “Executive Summary.” In Klaus Deininger (ed.). Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction, World Bank.

Suggested Readings:

1. Quan, Julian (1998) “Land Tenure and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods,” in Diana Carney, ed., Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: What Contribution Can We Make? UK: Department for International Development Press. 

2. Feder, Gershon and David Feeny (1991) “Land Tenure and Property Rights: Theory and Implications for Development Policy,” The World Bank Economic Review, 5:1, 135 – 153.

3. Feder, Gershon and Akihiko Nishio (1999) “The Benefits of Land Registration and Titling: Economic and Social Perspectives,” Land Use Policy, 15:1, 25-43.

4. Hue Le (2008) “Economic Reforms and Mangrove Forests in Central Vietnam,” Society & Natural Resources, 21:2, 106-119.

5. Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer (2008) “Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 56:3, 531-579.

 Tran Tien Khai

Required Readings:

1. Markets4Poor (2008) “Để chuỗi giá trị hiệu quả hơn cho người nghèo: Sổ tay thực hành phân tích chuỗi giá trị,” http://www.markets4poor.org/

Suggested Readings:

1. Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris (2001) “A Handbook for Value Chain Research,” http://www.inti.gob.ar/

2. GTZ ValueLinks Manual: The Methodology of Value Chain Promotion, http://www.value-links.de/manual/distributor.html.

 Development Myth 13: Globalization leads to a race to the bottom, in which poor countries compete on the basis of low wages and willingness to tolerate polluting industries

Chau Van Thanh

Required Readings:

1. Perkins et al. 2006. Chapter 19.

Suggested Readings:

1. Daniel W. Drezner (2006), “The Race to the Bottom Hypothesis – An Empirical and Theoretical Review”.

2. Michael P. Todaro and  Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development, Chapter 12: International Trade Theory and Development Strategy (10th Edition), London: Pearson Education, 2009.

 Chau Van Thanh

Required Readings:

1. Perkins et al. 2006. Chapter 19.

Suggested Readings:

1. John Weiss (2005), “Export Growth and Industrial Policy:Lessons from the East Asian Miracle experience”, ADB Institute Discussion Paper No. 26.

2. Michael P. Todaro and  Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development, Chapter 12: International Trade Theory and Development Strategy (10th Edition), London: Pearson Education, 2009.

3. David Dapice (2009), Trade in the Real World, What Policies Make Sense for a Developing Economy (lecture notes).

* The Uses and Abuses of Foreign Debt/and Financial Crises

* Foreign Aid, Growth and Development

Chau Van Thanh

Required Readings:

 1. Perkins et al. 2006. Chapters 14 & 15.

Suggested Readings:

1. Michael P. Todaro and  Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development, Chapter 13: Balance of Payments, Developing-Country Debt, and the Macroeconomic Stabilization Controversy (10th Edition), London: Pearson Education, 2009.

2. Nicholas D. Kristof (2006) “Aid: Can it Work?” New York Review of Books, October 5, http://www.nybooks.com/

Chau Van Thanh

Required Readings:

1. Perkins et al. 2006. Chapter 19 & 21.

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