Module Identifier MBM3210  
Module Title RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES  
Academic Year 2002/2003  
Co-ordinator Dr Timothy N Jenkins  
Semester Semester 2  
Course delivery Lecture   2 hours per week plus seminars  
Assessment Semester Exam     50%  
  Semester Assessment     50%  

Syllabus

Introduction: terminology, economic approaches to development, social and other non-economic assessments of development, indicators of development.
Theories of development: models of growth, structural change and dependence.
Population and development: Malthusian and household population models.
International trade and development: international perspectives on rural development, trade theory, trade policy, commodity policy.
Governments, markets and institutions: development planning, structural adjustment programmes, role of IMF and World Bank.
Agriculture and rural development: role of the agricultural sector in economic development, agricultural transformation, rural strategies and progress, rural-urban migration.
The environment and development: environmental impacts of development, sustainable development, policy options.

Reading Lists

Books
Stewart, Frances.. (1995) Adjustment and poverty: options and choices..
Todaro, M. (1997) Economic Development.. 6th. Longman
Toye, John.. (1993) Dilemmas of Development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development economics. 2nd.
Winters, L A. (1991) International Economics. 4th. Longman
Evans, H David and David Greenaway (eds).. (1991) Developing countries and the international economy: issues in trade, adjustment and debt..
Goldin, I, Knudsen, O. (1990) Agricultural Trade Liberalisation - Implications for Developing Countries. OECD.
Griffin, K. (1989) Alternative Strategies for Economic Development. St Martin?s Press
Hunt, Diana.. (1989) Economic Theories of Development.
Meier, G. (1989) Leading Issues in Economic Development. 5th. Oxford University Press.
Killick, Tony.. (1995) IMF programmes in developing countries: design and impact.
Hogendorn, JS. (1992) Economic Development,. Harper Collins
Gordon-Ashworth, F. (1984) International Commodity Control. Croom Helm.
Ghatak, Subrata.. (1995) Introduction to development economics.. 3rd.
Colman, David and Fred Nixson.. (1994) Economics of change in less developed countries. 3rd.

Journals
Sen, Amartya.. Development: which way now?. Econ. Journal 93. Dec 1983
Stern, N.. The economics of development: a survey. Econ. Journal 99. Sept 1989.

Technical Reports
United Nations Development Program, annual.. Human Development Reports
World Bank, annual.. World Development Reports