Development Administration

DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

Professor Paul Haber [email protected] University of Montana Political Science Department, course #463 Summer 2009 (in Mexico) Meets: Tuesday and Thursday 8:30am – 10:30am and for field trips

Required text (will be available at the UC Bookstore and can also be downloaded for free):

Nancy Birdsall, editor. 2008. The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next President. Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development, August 2008. http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560

Additional required reading:

David Bray. 2007. “A Path through the Woods: Community Forest Management in Mexico.” Grassroots Development. Volume 28, Number 1. Available on Blackboard.

Dan Jaffee. 2007. Brewed Justice. University of California Press. Chapter 1. Available on blackboard.

Gene Callahan. 2008. “Is Fair Trade a Fair Deal?” The Freeman. Volume 58, number 2. Gene Callahan, “Fair-trade coffee: not worth a hill of beans” Christian Science Monitor, 8/8/2008, Vol. 100, Issue 179. Both Callahan articles are available on blackboard in the same word document entitled “Critique of Fair Trade.”

This seminar class focuses on U.S. development policy. The authors in the volume edited by Birdsall review existing policies of the United States that impact the welfare of developing countries and make a number of suggestions for how these policies should be reformed early in the Obama Administration. There are many different perspectives concerning development and the foreign policies that have the most bearing on developing countries (such as foreign aid and trade policy). The authors of the Birdsall volume all adopt a similar perspective that I have termed progressive modernization. The advantage of focusing on one perspective is depth of understanding of key issues from this perspective. The disadvantage is the loss of breath that is gained from reading authors from different perspectives. We will somewhat mitigate this loss of breath by introducing other perspectives into the conversation. Graduate students will work with me to take special responsibility for providing alternative perspectives.

No assumptions are made regarding the background of students. However, I do assume that students are willing to work hard and put in the time necessary to read the text, take careful written notes on the assigned reading, and to come to class prepared to ask questions and discuss the readings assigned for that day. Students are strongly encouraged to read the Birdsall book (or as much of it as possible) and take notes before the program begins and then to re-read the text again and take additional notes as it is assigned during the program. Furthermore, students should be advised that I have decided to use a policy book rather than an introductory textbook as our core reading. So, students new to the subject might well benefit from reading the introductory textbook by Kingsbury et al that is the first book listed on the suggested reading below.

Grades will be based on the student’s ability to demonstrate to the instructor that the material has been read thoroughly and thoughtfully. This will be measured in several ways: class participation and homework (50%) and two oral exams (25% each). Graduate students will have extra assignments. Sustainability Theme:

The theme for the 2009 Mexico Study Abroad Program is sustainability. There are two assignments for this class that relate directly to this theme:

1. Define sustainability. Why have you chosen to define the term in the way you have? You might want to spend some time researching how others have defined the term. You might want to talk about this with other people, including Mexicans. What are the implications (and perhaps, advantages and disadvantages) of defining the term in various ways? You are not only allowed but encouraged (but not required) to change your definition over the course of our time in Mexico.

2. Evaluate each reading and fieldtrip in light of your definition of sustainability.

Reading Assignments and Exam Schedule:

June 23 Defining and measuring poverty and sustainability and what to do about it: Welcome to the debates:

1. Global Poverty Measures from World Bank: (go to this web site and browse around to familiarize yourself with this approach) http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20153855 ~menuPK:435040~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html#trends

2. Grim Statistics on Global Poverty (available on blackboard)

3. Millennium Development Goals (available on blackboard)

4. Article (short) on Poverty in Latin America (available on blackboard)

5. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, “The Standard of Living Debate in Development Policy” Critical Sociology 33:1 (2007):181–209 (available on blackboard)

6. Robert Thayer, Jr. 2003. LifePace: Bioregional Thought and Practice. University of California Press. Preface and Introduction (available on blackboard)

7. Robert Kates, Thomas Parris, and Anthony Leiserowitz, “What is Sustainable Development: Goals, Indicators, Values, and Practice” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47:2 (2005):8- 21(available on blackboard)

8. David Korton, “After the Meltdown: Economic Redesign for the 21st Century” Tikun (sometime in 2008) (available on blackboard)

June 25 Birdsall Introduction and chapter 1 and 2 June 30 Birdsall chapter 3 and 4 July 2 Birdsall chapter 5 and 6 July 7 No class. Study Day. July 9 Oral Exam #1 July 14 Birdsall chapter 7 and 8 July 16 Birdsall chapter 9 and 10 July 21 Birdsall chapter 11 and 12 July 23 Birdsall chapter 13 and free trade debate (readings on Blackboard) July 28 To be announced July 30 Oral Exam #2

Suggested readings (feel free to ask me about designing a personalized reading list for you)

Damien Kingsbury et al, International Development: Issues and Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time. The Penguin Press, available in paperback, 2005. Students have the option of reading the book or a 39 page typed summary of the book written by Paul Haber. This summary can be found on blackboard.

William Easterly, William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good. The Penguin Press, available in paperback, 2006. See, in particular, chapter 7 on AIDS, pp. 238-65, which can be found on blackboard.

Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Santosh Mehrotra & Enrique Delamonica, Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic & Social Policies for Equitable Growth. Zed Books, 2007. Students have the option of reading the book or a summary of the book written by Paul Haber. This summary can be found on blackboard.

Stephen Smith, Ending Global Poverty. Palgave MacMillan, 2005.

David Gow, Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination. Duke University Press, 2008.

Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match. Paradigm, 2009.

Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development :The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press, 1995.

Neil Webster and Lars Engberg-Pedersen, In the Name of the Poor: Contesting Political Space for Poverty Reduction. Zed Books, 2002.

Else Oyen et al, Best Practices in Poverty Reduction. Zed Books, 2002. Jeremy Gould, The New Conditionality: The Politics of Poverty Reduction Strategies. Zed Books, 2005.

Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua, The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story. Kumarian Press, 2006.

Amrita Narlikar, The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2005. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabbel, Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manuel. Zed Books, 2004.

Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom. Anchor Books, 1999.

Roberts, J. Timmons and Nikki Denetria Thanos. Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America. Routledge, 2003.

Articles and Papers

Luis Eduardo Fajardo, “From the Alliance of Progress to the Plan Colombia: A Retrospective Look at U.S. Aid to Colombia”. Working Paper #23. London: Crisis States Programme, Development Research Centre, DESTIN, April 2003. http://se1.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=47&fileid=55D7FF42-B9FE- 0FFC-283C-F01694EBE47B&lng=en

The Center for Global development has a working paper series that contains over 170 papers, all of which can be free downloaded from http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/?type=50 Here are a couple samples:

Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray. "The End of ODA: Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy." CGD Working Paper 167. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, March 2009 http://www.cgdev.org/content/general/detail/1421419/

Owen Barder, “What is Poverty Reduction?” CGD Working Paper 170. Washington D.C.: Center for Global Development, April 2009. http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1421599

Jenkins, Rhys, Enrique Dussel Peters, and Mauricio Mesquita Moreira. 2008. “The Impact of China on Latin America and the Caribean.” World Development 36:235-253.