Development and Planning Syllabus

Semester I · Credit Hours 3 · Full Marks 100 · Pass Marks 50 · Lecture Hours 48

Course Objective: This course offers advanced studies with an application perspective on development and planning, with a special focus on perspectives on development, theories of development, poverty, inequality, unemployment, current development issues, and planning.

Unit I: Perspectives on Development (10 Hours)

Meaning of economic growth and development; alternative concepts of development; income-based and capability-based approach of development; new development paradigm; sustainable development; new structural economics: a framework for rethinking development; thinking big and thinking small.

Unit II: Theories and Strategies of Development (10 Hours)

Classical theory; structural change model: Lewis two-sector model, Harris-Todaro model, balanced and unbalanced growth models; dependency and world system theory; Schultz approach of agricultural growth and development and critical minimum effort theory.

Unit III: Contemporary Development Issues (10 Hours)

Climate change and environmental sustainability; technological change and digital divide; gender and development; demographic shift and dividend; conflict, peace, and development; black economy; impacts of liberalization, globalization, and privatization.

Unit IV: Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment (8 Hours)

Poverty and inequality: measurement (monetary and non-monetary); types, measurement, and consequences of unemployment; assessment of policies geared towards poverty reduction, unemployment, and inequality; role of the state in policy reform.

Unit V: Development Planning (10 Hours)

Concept and rationale of planning; planning in socialist, capitalist, and mixed economies; periodic and perspective plans; local development planning; regional development planning; project planning; growth pole and growth center in planning; planning in a federal system.

References

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• Basu, K. (2002). Analytical development economics. OUP.
• Brück, T., Justino, P., & Martin-Shields, C. P. (2017). Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas (WIDER Working Paper 2017/178).
• Chang, H. (2003). Globalization, economic development and role of the state. Zed Books.
• Chaubey, P. K. (1995). Poverty measurement: Issues, approaches, and indices. New Age International.
• Cohen, J., & Easterly, W. (2009). What works in development? Thinking big and thinking small. Brookings Institution Press.
• Dale, R. (2004). Development planning. Zed Books.
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• Meier, G. M., & Rauch, J. E. (2000). Leading issues in economic development. OUP.
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• Ray, D. (2003). Development economics. OUP.
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• Stiglitz, J. E. (2002). Globalization and its discontents. Penguin Books.
• Subramanian, S. (2000). Measurement of inequality and poverty. OUP.
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• World Development Reports of various years.