This document outlines the readings for a 14-week development studies course, organized into topics covered each week. The topics include the hubris of development, institutions and governance, globalization and well-being, and development in the 21st century. Each week lists 3-4 academic papers or books related to that week's theme.

1. Revised Readings
SWO3A

2. Week 8 – Hubris of Development 1
• PT Baur, “Foreign aid, forever?”
• D Lal, “The dirigiste dogma”
• M Edwards, “Irrelevance of development
studies”

3. Week 9 – Hubris of Development 2
• J Williamson, “Democracy and the Washington
Consensus”
• JC Scott, “Seeing like a state”
• D Elson, “Male bias in the development
Process”
• J Ferguson, “The anti-politics machine… in
Lesotho”

4. Week 10 – Institutions, Governance,
Participation
• D Rodrik, “Goodbye Washington Consensus”
• P Heller, “Moving the state”
• M Mamdani, “Linking the urban the rural”
• D Mosse, “People’s knowledge”

5. Week 11 – Globalization, Security, Well-
being 1
• M Wolf, “The market crosses borders”
• RH Wade, “Is globalization reducing poverty
and inequality?”
• P Dasgupta, “Wealth and well-being”

6. Week 11 – Globalization, Security, Well-
being 2
• A Sen, “More than 100 million women are
missing”
• B Agarwal, “Conceptualizing environmental
collective action”
• BG Schoepf, “AIDS, gender, and sexuality
during Africa’s economic crisis”

7. Week 12 – Development in the 21st
Century 1
• S Radelet & J Sachs, “Asia’s reemergence”
• P Collier, “On missing the boat”
• F Cooper, “The recurrent crisis of the
gatekeeper state”

8. Week 13 – Development in the 21st
Century 2
• F Coronil, “Beyond occidentalism”
• A Appadurai, “Globalization and violence”
• T Dyson “On development, demography and
climate change

9. Week 14 – Review