Midterm Material

1Introduction¶

1.1Why does the study of development matter?¶

1.2What is development?¶

2History of Development¶

2.1Colonialism¶

2.2IDS Program and Resources¶

2.3Colonial Legacies and Resources¶

3Theories of Development¶

Keywords:

•Modernization theory
•The stages of economic growth
•Dependency theory
•Metropoles and Satellites
•Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)

Important readings:
•Rostow(1959) “The Stages of Economic Growth”
•Ferraro(1996) “Dependency Theory”

3.1Modernization and Dependency Theories¶

3.2Neoliberalism and Developmental States¶

3.3Globalization and Development¶

4Post-Development¶

4.1Post-development¶

4.2Measurement beyond GDP: Human Development and Participatory Approach¶

5Actors and Stakeholders¶

5.1Why am I even here? Who am I, what I do, and why¶

5.2Civil Society, the state and non-state actors: Who is in charge here?¶