1. First things first
• Dr David Matsinhe
– Email: dmatsinhe@uj.ac.za
– Tel: 011-559-4790
– Office hours/consultation
• Monday from 13 to 15
• Tuesday from 13 to 15
• Or by appointment
• Assignment 2 due next week
– Chose 3 texts to write about and stay focused
– Chose starting from Hubris of Development

2. Hubris of Development
Arrogance, pride, exaggerated self-
confidence

3. Week 8, Today’s Class
• PT Bauer’s critique of foreign aid
• D Lal on “Dirigiste Dogma”
• M Edwards on Irrelevance of Development
Studies

4. PT Bauer, “Lord Anti-Aid”
• Foreign aid as an act of faith
– Taken for granted; no questions asked; just give
• Aid for infrastructure – private capital not
available
• Aid that as development
– Overseas Dev Admin or Overseas Don Admin
• Aid as poverty relief

5. PT Bauer, “Lord Anti-Aid”
• Aid as debt relief and improvement of trade
• Aid as morality
• Aid as self-interest – creation of markets for
donor’s commodities
• Aid as rewards for bad behaviour – e.g. Idi
Amin in Uganda

6. D Lal on “Dirigiste Dogma”
• Dirigiste dogma
– The belief that the state must provide economic
and social goods and services
• Belief in irrelevance of orthodox economics
• Attack laissez-faire economics
• Based on Keynesian economics
• Neglect of welfare economics

7. M Edwards on Irrelevance of Dev Studies
• Our increasing knowledge of the Third World
does not result in solutions. Why?
• Privileging of expats experts
• Denigration of popular/indigenous knowledge
• Denigration of emotions
• Values and priorities
– Arrogance, selfishness, gender blindness,
– Qualities of modernity vs qualities of the
traditional

8. M Edwards on Irrelevance of Dev Studies
• Monopolization of knowledge and power
– Dominated by the North
– Jargon, language, literacy, price, availability, method
– Emphasis on technical skills
– Failure to challenge prejudice
• Want of humility – “learning from below”
• Want of popular participation (anti-participatory)
• Paralysis of understanding/research/critique

9. Readings for next week (Week 9)
• J Williamson, “Democracy and the Washington
Consensus”
• JC Scott, “Seeing Like a State”
• D Elson, “Male Bias in Dev Process
• J Ferguson, “The Anti-Politics Machine