Today 4.3 billion people, 60 per cent of the world’s population lives on less than $5 per day. While we are told that poverty will be eradicated by 2030, we also know that the richest eight people now control the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world combined. What is causing this growing inequality between and within nations? This course will introduce students to key analytical tools from anthropology, sociology, and geography relevant to development. Using a cross-disciplinary social science approach, the course will cover three intersecting political, economic, and cultural dimensions of development.
1) The first addresses the different ways of defining and measuring development and the political implications entailed.
2) the second provides a critical overview of the history and competing political economic theories of development.
3) the third explores contemporary development interventions and their effects on poverty and other forms of inequality.
*This syllabus has been adapted from Dr. Sapana Doshi, Julian Hartman’s and my syllabi from the International Development seminar that we offered at the University of Arizona. I thank both!
1) The first addresses the different ways of defining and measuring development and the political implications entailed.
2) the second provides a critical overview of the history and competing political economic theories of development.
3) the third explores contemporary development interventions and their effects on poverty and other forms of inequality.
*This syllabus has been adapted from Dr. Sapana Doshi, Julian Hartman’s and my syllabi from the International Development seminar that we offered at the University of Arizona. I thank both!
- Teacher: Nupur Joshi
