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Development studies: Key first-year reads

A list of recommended books for students of first year students interested in development studies

Development Studies is a diverse field and changing, and many students who are interested in development in Reach key issues from different angles - some are more focused on development economics, for For example, and others in the policy or development anthropology. It is also a very controversial issue, with a complex story in itself.

What unites many development studies as a whole is a whole big discussion about the relationship between history, culture, politics, and economic well-being. What types of public policies to promote economic growth? Who benefits from growth, and how? How the global economic structures, including the international aid system - an impact on local politics and key development outcomes? How have recent food crisis, financial and fuel affected developing countries? It is necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

We have compiled a list of essential reading for students interested in development studies. The following topics cover a wide range of topics and a similarly wide range of ways to address development issues. Whether you're sitting next to a dented copy of Amartya Sen or pick Adam Przeworski, first, let us know what you think. What book changed your thinking about a debate essential for development? What forms of development issues that are close, do you find most convincing? What other books would you recommend, especially for the first year of reading?

. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, poor economy: a radical rethink of how to fight against global poverty

. Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization

. Ester Boserup, the role of women in economic development

. Deborah Brautigam, Dragon's Gift: The True Story of China in Africa

. Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

. Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries failing and what can be done about it

. William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's efforts to help the rest have done so much harm and so little good

. Arturo Escobar, the meeting of Development: The making and unmaking of the Third World

. Peter Evans embedded autonomy: Processing and Industrial State


. Paul Farmer, the pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor

. James Ferguson, The anti-politics machine: 'development', depoliticization and bureaucratic power in Lesotho


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