Syllabus
Aiken, William & LaFollette, Hugh: “Introduction”,, 1977. in William Aiken & Hugh LaFollette (eds.), World Hunger and Moral Obligation. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. (10 p).
Banik, D.: "Operational Definitions of Famine and Related Terms", in Democracy, Drought and Starvation in India: Testing Sen in Theory and Practice, 2003. Department of Political Science..
Devereux, Stephen: Theories of Famine., 1993. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf. (Chapters 2, 3, 10 & 13) (52 p).
Hossain, Naomi & Moore, Mick: “Arguing for the Poor: Elites and Poverty in Developing Countries”, 2002. IDS Working Paper, No. 148.. (39 p). http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/wp/wp148.pdf.
Joshi, Anuradha & Moore, Mick : The Mobilising Potential of Anti-Poverty Programmes, 2000. IDS Discussion Paper 374. (31 p). http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/dp/dp374.pdf.
Kanbur, Ravi & Vines, David: “The World Bank and Poverty Reduction: Past, Present and Future”, 2000. in C. L. Gilbert & D. Vines (eds.), The World Bank: Structure and Policies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (32 p).
Khan, Mahmood Hasan : “Rural Poverty in Developing Countries”, 2000. Finance & Development. December 2000: 26-29 (5 p).
Maxwell, Simon : “WDR 2000: Is There a New ‘New Poverty Agenda’”?, 2001. Development Policy Review. Vol. 19, No. 1: 143-149. (7 p).
Narayan, Deepa : “Poverty is Powerlessness and Voicelessness”, 2000. Finance & Development. December 2000: 18-21. (4 p).
OECD : DAC Scoping Study of Donor Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices., 1999. London: Overseas Development Institute. (Chapter 1) (39 p). http://www.oecd.org/dac/htm/pubs/pov_scop.htm.
Rodrik, Dani : “Growth versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate”, 2000. Finance & Development. December 2000: 8-9. (2 p).
Sen, Amartya: “Freedom and Needs: An Argument for the Primacy of Political Rights”, 1994. The New Republic . 210: 31-38. (8 p).
Sen, Amartya: “Democracy as a Universal Value”, 1999. Journal of Democracy. Vol. 10, No. 9: 3-17. (15 p). http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/jod/10.3sen.html.
Townsend, Peter : The International Analysis of Poverty, 1993. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf. (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) (62 p).
Wratten, Ellen: “Conceptualising Urban Poverty”, 1995. Environment and Urbanization . 7: 11-36. (26 p).
Total reading: (798 p)
All articles (except those to be downloaded from the Internet) will be made available in a compendium to be purchased at the Akademika bookstore (Blindern). In addition, you will need to purchase the following books: Drèze & Sen (1989)and Gordon & Spicker (1999)