Syllabus

All articles in the syllabus are accessible online to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is on the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The entire syllabus will also be available electronically on Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

Ahmad, N. (2012) “Gender and Climate Change in Bangladesh: The Role of Institutions in Reducing Gender Gaps in Adaptation Programs”, A summary of ESW report no. P125705, Paper No. 126/March 2012, Washington: The World Bank.

Amsden, A. (1994) “Why Isn’t the Whole World Experimenting with the East Asian Model to Develop? Review of the East Asian Miracle”, World Development, 22(4): 627-633.

Banik, D. & Li, X. (2014) “Differing Paths, but a Common Goal: China’s Development Assistance and International Development Effectiveness”, IDS Bulletin 2014.

Banik, D. (2007) Starvation and India’s Democracy, London: Routledge. (chapter 2)

Bhavnani, A. et al. (2008) “The Role of Mobile Phones in Sustainable Rural Poverty Reduction”, ICT Policy Division, Global Information and Communications Department, World Bank.

Bhutta, Z. A. et al. (2008) “What Works? Interventions for Maternal and Child Undernutrition and Survival”, The Lancet Nutrition Series, 371 (February): 417-440.

Breslin, S. (2011) “The ‘China model’ and the global crisis: from Friedrich List to a Chinese modeof governance?", International Affairs 87: 6, 2011

Chatterjee, P. (2008) “Democracy and Economic Transformation in India”, Economic and Political Weekly 42 (16): 53-62.

Diaz-Cayeros, A. & Magaloni, B. (2009) “Aiding Latin America’s Poor”, Journal of Democracy 20 (4): 36-49.

Dreze, J. & Sen, A. (1989) Hunger and Public Action, Oxford: Clarendon. (chapters 11)

Ellis, F. & Maliro, D. (2013) “Fertiliser Subsidies and Social Cash Transfers as Complementary or Competing Instruments for Reducing Vulnerability to Hunger: The Case of Malawi”, Development Policy Review 31(5): 575-596.

Evenson, R. E. and Gollin, D. (2003) “Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000”, Science, 300(5620): 758-762.

Fiszbein, A. & Schady, N. (2009) Conditional Cash Transfers, Washington DC: World Bank (pp. 3-28 & 45-66)

Godfray, H. C. J. (2011) “Food for Thought”, http://www.pnas.org/content/108/50/19845.full

Green, C. et al (2006) “Uganda’s HIV Prevention Success: The Role of Sexual Behavior Change and the National Response”, AIDS and Behavior 10 (4): 335-346.

Jack, W. & Suri, T. (2011) “Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA”, NBER Working Paper 16721, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.

Kelman, I. & Jonkman, S. N. (2007) “Disaster Deaths Research Challenges”, Presentation at the Hazards and Disasters Researchers Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 11-12 July 2007.

Khandker, S. R. and Samad, H. A. (2013) “Microfinance Growth and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh:

Lin, J. and Ha-Joon Chang (2009) “Should Industrial Policy in Developing Countries Conform to Comparative Advantage or Defy it? A Debate between Justin Lin and Ha-Joon Chang”, Development Policy Review, Vol. 27: 483-502.

Narayan, D. et al. (2009) Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up, Washington: World Bank/ Palgrave. (p. 3-49).

Nilsen, A. G. (2007) “On New Social Movements and ‘the Reinvention of India”, Forum for Development Studies 34 (2): 271-93.

O’Keefe, P., Westgate, K. & Wisner, B. (1976) “Taking the Naturalness Out of Natural Disasters”, Nature 260: 566-567.

Parayil, G. (2006) “The ‘Kerala model’ of Development: Development and Sustainability in the Third World”, Third World Quarterly 17(5): 941-957.

Parkhurst, J. O. (2005) “The Response to HIV/AIDS and the Construction of National Legitimacy: Lessons from Uganda”, Development and Change 36(3): 571-590

Paul, B. K. (2009) “Why Relatively Fewer People Died? The Case of Bangladesh’s Cyclone Sidr”, Nat. Hazard, 50: 289–304.

Paul, B. K. (2011) “Disaster Effects and Impacts”, Ch. 4 in Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

Ravallion, M. (2009) “Are there Lessons for Africa from China’s Success against Poverty?” World Development 37(2): 303-313.

Renkow, M. & Byerlee, D. (2010) “The Impacts of CGIAR Research: A Review of Recent Evidence”, Food Policy, 35: 391-402

Singh, R. (2009) “Mobile Phones for Development and Profit: A Win-Win Scenario”, ODI Opinion 128, Overseas Development Institute.

Sundar, N. (2011) “The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-Struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India” in A. Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds.), The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, London: Routledge.

Tilman, D. et al. (2011) “Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture”, http://www.pnas.org/content/108/50/20260.short

What Does the Longitudinal Data Say?” Working paper #16. Institute for Microfinance.

 

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