DID Summer Recommendations for Listening, Reading, & Watching

The Department of International Development (DID) at King’s College London is a diverse community, with wide ranging interests and approaches. We thought it may be helpful to get a sense of the types of materials you will be reading when you join the DID community this coming academic year. To that end, we’ve put together the below list with suggestions for reading, watching and listening on varied topics explored by DID staff and students.

How to use this list: The list offers a taste of the types of materials you may engage with over the course of your studies. Please do not feel compelled to rush out and buy any of these texts, or feel that you should have read anything, in particular, before beginning the programme. This is just meant to give you a flavour of what’s to come.

What’s included: We have made an effort to include introductory types of texts. Also, given that you are yet to start, and thus do not have full library access, where possible, DID staff have recommended open access materials (meaning, you can freely access them online). We have arranged the resources thematically, and then geographically, so you can easily focus on thematic or spatial areas of interest. Immediately below, you’ll find a list of the 14 themes covered. In the geographically-organised portion of the document, you’ll see materials grouped according to Latin America, then Asia and Africa, with country-specific materials within those headings.

We hope you find this recommended reading list helpful, and we look forward to meeting you in September!

Themes:

1. General Development Theory 2. Class and Community Formation 3. Climate, Environment and Society 4. Gender and Development 5. Emerging Powers 6. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Development 7. Health and Education Policy in Development 8. Identity and Discrimination 9. Migration and Development 10. Politics and Public Finance Management 11. Politics, Political Economy and Policy Change 12. Poverty and Inequality 13. Research Design and Methods 14. Youth and Development

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Theme 1: General Development Theory

The readings identified in this theme purposefully include a variety of perspectives on the broad topic of economic development, with authors coming from sociological, economic and political backgrounds. The texts offer explanations for big global questions, such why there are varying rates of economic development and political freedoms.

Acemoglu, D. and Robinson J. (2013). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power and Prosperity. Profile Books. Bhagwati, J. (2007). In Defense of Globalization. Oxford University Press. Chang, H. (2002). Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. London: Anthem. Escobar, A. (2012 [1995]). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press. Frase, P. (2016). Four Futures: Life after Capitalism. Verso Books.

Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Haslam, P, J. Schafer & P. Beaudet. (2017) (eds.) Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, Issues, and Practice, Oxford University Press. McMichael, P. (2016) Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, Sage, 6th edition. Moyo, D. (2010). Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa. Penguin. Reinert, E. (2008). How the Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. Constable Press. Rodrik, D. (2011) The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. New York and London: W.W. Norton.

Sandel, M. (2013) What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Penguin Books.

Sen, A. (2001) Development As Freedom, New Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Todaro, M & Smith, S, (2011). Economic Development, Addison-Wesley, Harlow.

Wimmer, A. (2018). Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Theme 2: Class and Community Formation

These readings expand on theme 2 (identity and discrimination) by asking how individual experiences and new ideas come together into political projects. How do workers realise they might share experiences and ideas, and develop ‘class consciousness’? Which political ideas, movements and campaigns emerge from the margins of development? How and why do movements turn to the political ‘left’ or ‘right’, become class-based or identity-based? And what is the role of democratic politics, in terms of voting and representation?

Banerjee, M. (2014) Why India votes? Routledge. Bedi, Tarini. (2016) The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena. Political matronage in urbanizing India. New York: SUNY Press. Ciccariello-Maher, G. (2016). Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela. Verso. Hagen, K. (2001). Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. Cornell University Press. Pun, N. (2004). Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Duke University Press. Roy, A. and N AlSayyad, eds. (2003). Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia. Lexington Books.

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Theme 3: Climate, environment and society

In development studies, thinkers have grappled with how to conceptualise the role of climate change in relation to the broader system of capitalist accumulation that dominates on a world scale, both at a macro-and micro-level, and how to understand its differential impact in terms of class, race, and geography. How are we to understand how climate change is articulated with forces of social exploitation? What does this mean for policies seeking to ‘mitigate’ and ‘adapt to’ climate impacts? These are some of the questions addressed in these key texts on climate, environment and society.

Bellamy Foster, J. (2000) Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature. New York: Monthly Review Press. Malm, A. (2018) The Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. London: Verso. Natarajan, N., Brickell, K. and Parsons, L. (2019) ‘Climate change and precarity across the Rural-Urban Divide in Cambodia: Towards a ‘Climate Precarity’ approach’*. Environment and Planning E. Salleh, A. (1997) Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern. London” Zed Books. Taylor, M. (2014) The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation: Livelihoods, Agrarian Change, and the Conflicts of Development. Abingdon: Routledge/Earthscan. Weis, T. (2007) The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming. London: Zed Books.

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Theme 4: Gender and Development

The field of gender and development looks at a) how and why men and women experience development and deprivation differently, and b) how gender as a system of power shapes the world we live in. The below texts offer a snapshot of the richness of research and writing in this field, looking at the economy, violence and justice, the environment, politics, social change, and data bias. Studying gender and development at King’s encompasses still much more of course: how gender intersects with other inequalities such as race and class, men and masculinities, sexuality and reproductive rights, feminism and activism.

Benería, Lourdes, Günseli Berik and Maria Floro (2016). Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People mattered. Routledge. Boesten, Jelke, (2020). ‘Gendered Violence, Destruction, and Feminist struggles’. In: Rocio Silva Santisteban (ed.) Indigenous Women and Climate Change. Copenhagen: IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 64-76. Boesten, Jelke, (2014) Sexual Violence in War and Peace. Gender, power and Post-conflict Justice. Palgrave Studies of the Americas. Criado Perez, Carolina (2020). Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Vintage. Enloe, C. (2017). The Big Push. Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy. Myriad Press.

Evans, Alice (2019). ‘How Cities Erode Gender Inequality: A New Theory and Evidence from Cambodia.’ Gender & Society 33, no. 6: 961-984. Evans, Alice (2020) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Male Breadwinner’, YouTube video Ewig, Christina, 2020. Gender and the “war” on Covid-19. The Gender Policy Report. University of Minnesota. Hardi, Choman, Award winning Iraqi Kurdish poet and academic, talks to the BBC Arts Hour about her work on women and the Anfal genocide (1986-89). Includes some of her powerful poetry, only 7 minutes long.

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Theme 5: Emerging Powers

A decade ago, emerging powers were largely understood as the rise of the five large economies known as the “BRICS” (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). With only China still going strong (some would argue) — and accompanied by the so-called East Asian Tigers such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore — the big debate is does the future belong to the East? If so, what exactly is the East? Does its rise mean the decline of the West? And what kind of implications will its rise mean for other regions? The collection works below speaks to these questions, and suggests direction for development studies.

Amsden, A. (2001). The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late- Industrializing Economies. Oxford University Press. Hayward, Jane (2018) “The Rise of China's New-type Think Tanks and the Internationalization of the State.” Pacific Affairs, 91 (1). pp. 27-47. Hurrell, A. (2018). "Beyond the BRICS: Power, Pluralism and the Future of Global Order" in Ethics and International Affairs (Roundtable: Rising Powers and International Order), 32(1):89-101. Kang, D. (2012). East Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute. New York: Columbia University Press.

Moyo, D. “Is China the New Idol for Emerging Economies?”

Nayyar, D. (2019) Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development. WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford University Press. Sorace, C., I. Franceschini, N. Loubere (Editors) (2019) Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi. Verso and ANU Press. Available to download.

Stuenkel, O. (2016). Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers are Remaking Global Order. Polity Press.

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Theme 6: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development

State support for private sector advance, particularly with respect to technological advance and innovation more broadly, is central to development. The social promise of innovative entrepreneurship includes job creation, competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy and furthering productivity. The readings suggested here offer an entry into the basis for such industrial policy focused on technological capacity building and on promoting entrepreneurship. In these books, articles and podcast you will see empirical and conceptual insight into how and why state policy is essential to boosting technological competitiveness, ensuring equitable distribution of opportunities and outcomes and/or promoting a circular (or doughnut) economy.

Baldwin, R (2016). The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization. Harvard University Press. Breznitz, D. and M Murphree. (2011). Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China. Yale University Press. Ciravegna, L, S Kundu, and R Fitzgerald (2014). Emerging Markets: Risks, Challenges and Opportunities. Financial Times Press. Glennie, A., Klingler-Vidra, R. (2020). Strategies for Supporting Inclusive Innovation: Insights from South-East Asia. Bangkok: UNDP. Klingler-Vidra, R. (2018) The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. and 1869 podcast interview.

Klingler-Vidra, R. (2018) “Building the Venture Capital State”, American Affairs, II(3). Lee, Kai Fu. (2018) AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Mazzucato, M. (2018). The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Allen Lane Press. Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Random House. Taylor, M Z. (2016). The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology. Oxford University Press.

The Guardian’s lessons on doing business at the base of the pyramid.

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Theme 7: Health and Education Policy in Development

Health and education are considered fundamental to individual wellbeing and to societal advancement. But what drives domestic and global policy in these areas? Whose interests are represented and whose are sacrificed? These readings give a taster of some of the big challenges confronting emerging economies.

Baum, F. (2008) The New Public Health, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Buchmann, C. and Hannum, E. (2001). ‘Education and Stratification in Developing Countries: A Review of Theories and Research.’ Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 77– 102. Chit, Aye Aye (2017) The Presentation at the 'Gender, Rights and Justice in a Transitioning Myanmar' conference on 13 November 2017.

Dryden-Peterson, S. (2017) Portraying refugee education. Muennig P & Su C. (2013) Introducing Global Health. Practice, Policy and Solutions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Hunter, B.M and S.F. Murray. (2019) Deconstructing the Financialization of Healthcare. This article traces the antecedents, institutions, instruments and ideas that facilitated the penetration of private capital in the healthcare sector, and the emergence of new asset classes that distinguish it. The authors argue that this deepening of financialization represents a fundamental shift in the organizing principles for healthcare systems, with negative implications for health and equality. Liu, Y. (2016) Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China. Springer: Singapore. Long reads in The Guardian: “How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity” and “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic” Mejía Acosta, Andrés and Lawrence Haddad. 2013. The politics of success in the fight against malnutrition in Peru. Food Policy. 44: 26-35. Mooney G. (2012) The health of nations: towards a new political economy. Zed Press. People’s Health Movement (2017) Global Health Watch An Alternative World Health Report Shadlen, Kenneth. 2017. Coalitions and Compliance. The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin America. Oxford University Press. Takayama, K., A. Sriprakash, and R. Connell. 2017. ‘Toward a Postcolonial Comparative and International Education.’ Comparative Education Review 61 S1-S24. Unterhalter, E. and A. North (2018) Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality: How People Make Policy Happen. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Theme 8: Identity and Discrimination

These readings explore three related questions. First, who benefits and who bears the fallout from development, and why? Second, how does people’s understanding of themselves and their relations to others change through the idea of progress and the material experience of development? Last, why are radical critics of development suggesting to ditch the whole enterprise, what are they arguing and suggesting?

Atiba Goff, P., Phillip Atiba Goff, J Eberhardt, M Williams, and M Jackson (2008). “Not yet human: Implicit knowledge, historical dehumanization, and contemporary consequences.” Journal of Personal and Social Psychology, 94 (2): 292-306. Bhattacharya, T. (2017) (eds.) Social Reproduction Theory. London: Verso [Introduction). Federici, S. (2012) Revolution at Point Zero: Wages for Housework. Oakland: PM Press. Fredrickson, G (1981) White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History. Oxford University Press. Kumar, Sunil. 2017. Caste and credit: Not such a woeful tale?. Lee, C. (2015). Frantz Fanon: Towards a Revolutionary Humanism. Ohio University Press. Roy, A. (1997) God of Small Things. London: Flamingo

Susewind, R. (2015). The "Wazirganj terror attack": Sectarian conflict and the middle classes. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 11, 1-45. Susewind, R. (2017). Muslims in Indian cities: Degrees of segregation and the elusive ghetto. Environment and Planning A, 49(3), 1286-130.

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Theme 9: Migration and Development

The readings here approach the issue of migration and development from differing perspectives, including theoretical and historical overviews, detailed case studies, legal and policy contexts, and personal experiences - all of which we will cover in the study of migration at King’s. The authors too come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, and address a variety of questions, including: What is the link between migration and development? How is that link shaped by income, gender, type of migration, origin area and destination? How do international, national and local policies influence whether migration is “a success” - and for whom?

Andersson, R. (2019). No Go World: How fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics. University of California Press. Arya, S. and A Roy, eds. (2006). Poverty, gender and migration. (Women and migration in Asia, Vol. 2). Sage Publications. Brettell, C. B., & Hollifield, J. F. (Eds.). (2014). Migration theory: Talking across disciplines. Routledge. Dauvergne, C. (2008). Making people illegal: What globalization means for migration and law. Cambridge University Press. Goodburn, C. (2019). Changing patterns of household decision-making and the education of rural migrant children: comparing Shenzhen and Mumbai. Migration Studies. Ozden, C., Wagner, M., & Packard, M. (2018). Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets. Policy Research Report Overview, World Bank Group, 15. Panayi, P (2020). Migrant City: a New History of London. New Haven: Yale University Press. Skeldon, R. (2014). Migration and development: A global perspective. Routledge. Trilling, D (2018) Lights in the Distance. Picador

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Theme 10: Politics and Public Finance Management

This set of readings explore two recurrent themes in the literature: a) an adequate management of public finances is cornerstone to advance and finance any development objective, and b) this management poses political, not technical negotiations that determine long term winners and losers. Specific themes explore include how to tax business elites, which actors make budgetary decisions, why do people pay taxes, how to manage natural resource rents, and how to distribute government resources across different local governments.

Berenson, M. (2018). Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108333580

Fairfield, Tasha (2013) Going where the money is: strategies for taxing economic elites in unequal democracies World Development, 47. pp. 42-57.

Hallerberg, M., C. Scartascini and E. Stein (2009). Who Decides the Budget? A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Mejia Acosta, Andres & Louise Tillin (2019) Negotiating universalism in India and Latin America: Fiscal decentralization, subnational politics and social outcomes, Regional & Federal Studies, 29:2, 115-134, DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2019.1582525

Mejía Acosta, Andrés. 2013. "The Governance of Natural Resources: Review of Impact and Effectiveness of Accountability and Transparency Initiatives." Development Policy Review no. 31 (Supplement s1):89-105.

Von Hagen, Jurgen. 2006. Political Economy of Fiscal Institutions. In Weingast Barry and Donald Wittman. The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Oxford University Press.

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Theme 11: Politics, Political Economy and Policy Change

This is a very ample theme that looks at the broad question of how states, markets and institutions shape policy reforms in different realms. This set of readings includes rich discussions on what do states do and what are their capacities to promote, sponsor or block policy change. Some of these readings go beyond a generic reference to “political will” and discuss what institutions are, how they work and how they shape motivations of political and policy actors. Finally, some readings explore the question of how business, political and social actors cooperate with one another -or not- to craft coalitions for reform.

Ang, Y. Y. (2016). How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Gillies, Alexandra. (2019) Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World, Oxford University Press. Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky. (2006) Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America. Johns Hopkins University Press Haggard, S and R Kaufman (2016). Masses, Elites, and Regime Change. Princeton University Press. Hayward, J. (2017) “Beyond the Ownership Question: Who Will Till the Land? The New Debate on China’s Agricultural Production.” Critical Asian Studies, 49 (4). pp. 523-545. McGuire, J. (2010). Wealth, Health and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Mejia Acosta, Andres. (2009). Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America. London: Routledge. Polanyi, K. (2001). The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Beacon Press.

Schneider, B. (2013) Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor and the Challenges of Equitable Development.

Stokes, S. (2001). Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Tsebelis, G. (2002). Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work. Princeton University Press.

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Theme 12: Poverty and Inequality

The readings here on poverty and inequality cover some of the big questions like have poverty and inequality fallen? If so where and why? Does inequality matter? If so why? The books and papers seek to provide theories and ideas on why are some people poor or not poor? Why does inequality rise or fall? And other important questions in the study of inclusive growth.

Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo (2007) The economic lives of the poor. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21 (1), 141-168. Deaton, A. (2013). The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton University Press. Dreze, Jean. (2017) Sense and solidarity. Jholawala economics for everyone. Ranikhet: Permanent Black. Greig, A., D Hulme, and M Turner, (2007). Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century. Palgrave. Hickel, J. (2017). The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. William Heinemann Books. Milanovic, B. (2016). Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Harvard University Press. Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the 21st Century. Harvard University Press.

Stiglitz, J. (2016). The Great Divide. Penguin Books.

Sudhir, Anand and Paul Segal. (2017) "Who are the Global top 1%", London School of Economics International Inequalities Institute, Working Paper. (Published in World Development, Vol. 95, pp.111-126, 2017, doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.001.)

Sumner, Andy. (2020) Will COVID-19 lead to half a billion more people living in poverty in developing countries? UNU-WIDER.

Yuen Yuen Ang (2016). How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

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Theme 13: Research Design and Methods

This collection of books and articles offer guidance on how to develop a good research design as well as discusses different research methodologies to analyse quantitative and qualitative data, keeping in mind important disciplinary differences. Some pieces provide some building blocks for developing solid research projects, like understanding theories, concepts and causal inference. There are also contributions to help with qualitative research including doing case studies, process tracing and analytical narratives. Quantitative research advice includes doing randomize control trials, as well as data analysis for statistical models.

Brillinger, David. (2011) ‘Exploratory Data Analysis’. In International Encyclopaedia of Political Science, edited by B. Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, and L. Morlino. SAGE.

Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunnigham. Collier, David. (2011) Understanding Process Tracing. Political Science and Politics. 44 (4): 823-830. Deaton, A. and Cartwright, N. (2017). Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials. Social Science & Medicine. Gerring, John. (2003) Case Study Research Principles and Practices. Cambridge University Press. Goertz, Gary and James Mahoney. (2013) A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences. Princeton University Press. 2013 Johnson, Janet Buttolph, Richard Joslin, and H.T. Reynolds (2004) Political science research methods. Washington: CQ press Kumar, S.M. RCTs for better policy? The case of public systems in developing countries. Econ Polit 33, 83–98 (2016). OpenIntro Statistics. (2015) 3rd Edition by David M. Dietz, Christopher D. Barr, and Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel.

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Theme 14: Youth and Development

Youth, whether as a social category, ideological symbol or political actor, has become increasingly central to development policy and practice, research and theory, over the course of the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Organized groups across the political spectrum repeatedly invoke the promise and/or threat of "youth" to promote and build support for preferred development policies; and youth and the young have been linked with both positive as well as negative development trends. Developing a better understanding of the nature and significance of youth in society, and its specific links with projects of local, national and global development, is thus a central task for any analysis of contemporary and historical development studies.

Ibrahim, A., Steinberg, S. R., & Hutton, L. (Eds.). (2014). Critical youth studies reader. New York, NY: Peter Lang. Kelly, P., & Kamp, A. (2014). A critical youth studies for the 21st century. Brill. New, Robert Alan LeVine Rebecca Staples. (2008). Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-cultural Reader. Routledge, NY. Sukarieh, M., & Tannock, S. (2008). In the best interests of youth or neoliberalism? The World Bank and the New Global Youth Empowerment Project. Journal of youth studies, 11(3), 301-312.

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Films, media articles, blogs and podcasts on Emerging Economies from a variety of perspectives, as recommended by staff (listed by subject country/region)

GENERAL INTEREST Five Books recommendations on Development Economics by Jeffrey Sachs and Pranab Bardhan. Klingler-Vidra, Robyn. (2020) A State of Innovation, WORLD: we got this podcast. Ravallion, M., 2001. The mystery of the vanishing benefits: An introduction to impact evaluation. The World Bank Economic Review, 15(1), pp.115-140. (Available here online) Rocking Our Priors podcast by Alice Evans (available on Spotify and iTunes) Segal, Paul. (2018) "Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction", Institute for New Economic Thinking. Sumner, Andy. (2020) Coronavirus could turn back the clock 30 years on global poverty, The Guardian. UNHCR My Life As A Refugee game.

AFRICA White Material (2009) Democratic Republic of Congo Virunga (2014) Kenya The First Grader (2010) Mali Timbuktu (2014) Senegal Moolaadé (2004) South Africa Invictus (2009) Tsotsi (2005) Sudan Beats of the Antonov (2014) The March (1990) Uganda The Last King of Scotland (2006) Zimbabwe Neria (1993)

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ASIA

Cambodia The Killing Fields (1984) China The Painted Veil (2006) India Aarakshan (2011) Anaarkali of Aarah (2017) Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola (2013) Susewind, R. (2019). Longing and belonging in Lucknow. An interactive visualisation of ghettoization and urban belonging. Slumdog Millionaire (2009) The Apu Trilogy (1955, 56, 59) The Lunchbox (2014) Indonesia The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) South Korea Parasite (2019) Poetry (2011) Vietnam The Fog of War (2003)

LATIN AMERICA The Mission (1986) The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Argentina The Official Story (1985) Wild Tales (2014) Brazil The Second Mother (2015) Almost brothers (2004) / Quase dois irmãos The edge of democracy (2019) Chile Machuca (2004) Chicago Boys (2015) Ecuador Qué tan lejos (2006) Mexico Sin Nombre (2009) Peru Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder and Mining (2007) The Milk of Sorrow/La Teta Asustada (2009)

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Fiction Reading on Emerging Economies from a variety of perspectives, as recommended by staff - listed by subject country/region

AFRICA Naguib Mahfouz, Journey of Ibn Fatouma and Adrift on the Nile J.G. Ballard, The Day of Creation Angola Jose Eduardo Agualusa, My Father’s Wives; Creole Stephen Ondjaki, Good Morning Comrades Kenya Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat Nigeria Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Half of a Yellow Sun Sierra Leone Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter South Africa Zakes Mda, Black Diamond Nadine Gordimer, July’s People Uganda I am Evelyn Amony

ASIA

Cambodia Alice Pung, Unpolished gem China Zhu Wen, I love Dollars Mo Yan, The Garlic Ballads Xiaolou Guo, Village of Stone India Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Suketu Mehta, Maximum city: Bombay lost and found Amitava Kumar, A Foreigner carrying in the crook of his arm a tiny bomb Arhundati Roy, The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Sri Lal Sukla, Raag Darbari Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy South Korea Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom Han Kang, Human Acts Vietnam Graham Greene, The Quiet American

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LATIN AMERICA

Argentina Alicia Steimberg, Musicians and Watchmakers Bolivia Liliana Colanzi, Our Dead World Brazil Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva Chile Maria Meruane, Seeing Red Robert Bolano, The Savage Detectives Colombia Emma Reyes, The Book of Emma Reyes Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Guatemala I, Rigoberta Menchu Mexico Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz Peru Mario Vargas Llosa, The Time of the Hero South America Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries

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