Readings
Day 1: Conceptual Foundations of Human Development From Basic Needs to Human Development
Sen, Amartya (2000). ‘A Decade of Human Development’, Journal of Human Development, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Stewart, Frances (1985). A Basic Needs Approach to Development. Chapter 1. Planning to Meet Basic Needs, Macmillan.
Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom, OUP
UNDP (1990). Human Development Report 1990. New York: Oxford University Press.
Alkire, S. 2002. Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction, OUP.
Streeten, P., at al., First Things First: Meeting Basic Needs in developing Countries (New York: OUP)
Stewart, Frances (2006). ‘The evolution of economic ideas: from import substitution to Human Development’, in V. FitzGerald and R. Thorp, Economic Doctrines in Latin America, London: Palgrave.
Stewart, Frances (1995). 'Basic Needs, Capabilities and Human Development', Greek Economic Review 17, 2.
Human Development and the Capability Approach
Sen, Amartya (1989). "Development as Capability Expansion" In S. Fukuda-Parr
Parr and A.K. Shiva Kumar, Readings in Human Development, Oxford University Press (2003).
Sen, Amartya (1993). ‘Capability and Well-being’ in A. Sen and M. Nussbaum, The Quality of Life, Clarendon Press.
Alkire, Sabina. (2002). Dimensions of Human Development. In World Development Vol, 30, No. 2
Day 2: The Human Development Report
The Making of a Human Development Report
The Making of a National Human Development Report
ul Haq, Mahbub (1989). The Human Development Paradigm. Chapter 2, Reflections on Human Development. Oxford University Press.
ul Haq, Mahbub (1989). The Advent of the Human Development Report. Chapter 3, Reflections on Human Development. Oxford University Press.
Human Development Report Toolkit (Available online)
Day 3: Poverty, Gender, and Issues of Measurement Poverty and Vulnerability
Sen, Amartya (1999) Poverty as Capability Deprivation. Chapter 4, Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press.
Grusky, David and Kanbur, Ravi (eds) (2006). Introduction: The Conceptual Foundations of Poverty and Inequality Measures. Chapter 1, Poverty and Inequality. Stanford University Press.
Dercon, Stefan (April 2005). ‘Vulnerability: A Micro Perspective’ . Mimeo.
Dercon, Stefan; Tessa Bold and Cesar Calvo ‘Insurance for the Poor?’ Mimeo.
Gender and Human Development
Sen, Amartya (1999) Women’s Agency and Social Change. Chapter 8, Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press.
Nussbaum, Martha, (2001), Introduction: Feminism and International Development. In Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge University Press.
Nussbaum, Martha, (2001), 'Women and Cultural Universals' in Sex and Social Justice, OUP
Gender and the Capability Approach, special issue of Feminist Economics, 2003, July. Reprinted in 'Capabilities, Freedom, and Equality' by Bina Agarwal, Jane
Humphries, Ingrid Robeyns (eds), Oxford University Press (New Delhi, 2005). European distribution by Routledge
Measuring Human Development
ul Haq, Mahbub (1989). The Birth of the Human Development Index. Chapter 4, Reflections on Human Development. Oxford University Press.
Day 4: Democracy and Civil Society
Democracy and Human Development
Sen, Amartya (1999). 'Democracy as Universal Value', Journal of Democracy 10(3): 3-17.
Drèze, Jean and Sen, Amartya (2002). The Practice of Democracy. Chapter 10, India: Development and Participation, Oxford University Press.
Global Governance and Civil Society
Price, Richard (2003), 'Transnational Civil Society and Advocacy in World Politics', World Politics 55(4): 579-606.
Scholte, Jan Aart (May 1999) ‘Global Civil Society Changing the World?’ CSGR Working Paper 31/99.
Day 5: Poverty and HIV/AIDS
Measuring Poverty and Inequality
Sen, Amartya (2006). Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty. Chapter 2, Poverty and Inequality by Grusky, David and Kanbur, Ravi (eds). Stanford University Press.
A. Coudeouel, J. Hentschel, Q. Wodon (2001). ‘Well-being measurement and analysis’, World Bank. Draft for comments, April.
Atkinson, A. & Bourguignon, F. (2000). Introduction: Income Distribution and Economics. In Handbook of Income Distribution, North Holland
Milanovic (2005). Worlds apart. Measuring International and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press.
Sen A., Foster J. (1997). On economic inequality after a Quarter Century, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
HIV/AIDS and Human Development
UNAIDS (2006) Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic: Executive Summary. http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/default.asp
UNDP, "Thailand's Response to HIV/AIDS: Progress and Challenges": http://www.undp.org.th/docs/HIV_AIDS_FullReport_ENG.pdf.
Capitalism and Poverty
Harriss-White, Barbara (April, 2006). 'Poverty and Capitalism.' Economic and Political Weekly vol XI no 13 April 1st pp1241-6.
Khan, Mushtaq H. (2003). ‘State Failure in Developing Countries and Institutional Reform Strategies’. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, Europe.
Day 6: Conflict, Human Rights and Major Trends
Human Development: Major trends and challenges
Conflict and Human Security
Stewart, Frances (2000). ‘Crisis prevention: tackling horizontal inequalities’ Oxford Development Studies, 28,3, pp 245-262.
Development, Rights and Human Security. In Human Security Now.
Stewart, Fitzgerald et al. (2001). War and Underdevelopment, Vol 1., Chapters One, Five and Nine.
Keen, David (1998). The economic functions of violence in civil wars. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
UNDP (2005) Human Development Report 2005, Chapter Five.
Humphreys, M. (2003). ‘Economics and violent conflict’. http://www.preventconflict.org/portal/economics/Essay.pdf
Collier, Paul, et. al. (2003). Breaking the conflict trap : civil war and development policy. Washington, DC, New York, World Bank ; Oxford University Press.
Human Rights
UNDP (2000). Human Rights and Human Development. Chapter 1 Human Development Report 2000. New York: OUP.
Sen, Amartya (2005). Human Rights and Capabilities. In Journal of Human Development. Vol. 6, No. 2. July.
Vizard, Polly. (2006). The HDCA Approach and Human Rights. Briefing Note Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).
Vizard, Polly (2006). Poverty and Human Rights, OUP.
Day 7: Financial Markets and Trade
Human Development, Trade, and Growth
Adrian Wood with Michele Calandrino (2000). ‘When the other giant awakens: trade and human resources in India’, Mimeo, reprinted in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXV, Nos 52-53.
Adrian Wood (2003), ‘Could Africa be like America?’, in B. Pleskovic and N. Stern (eds), Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2003, World Bank and Oxford University Press.
Financial Markets and Development
Stiglitz, Joseph E. ‘Financial Markets and Development’ Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 5(4).
Cobham, Alexander (April 2001). ‘Capital Account Liberalisation and Poverty’. QEH Working Paper Series #70.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2006) Reforming the Global Reserve System. Chapter 9, Making Globalization Work. Penguin Books.
Day 8: Economic Growth and Environmental Governance
Economic Growth and Human Development
Acuña-Alfaro. (2006). Economic Growth and Human Development. Briefing Note Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).
Ranis, G.; Stewart, F. & Ramirez, A. (2000). ‘Economic Growth and Human Development, World Development 28(2), pp197-219.
Strauss, J. & Thomas, D. (1998). Health, Nutrition and Economic Development. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 36(2).
Drèze, Jean and Sen, Amartya (2002), Economic Development and Social Opportunity. Chapter 2, India: Development and Participation. Oxford University Press.
Rodrick, Dani (2004). A Practical Approach to Formulating Growth Strategies. Mimeo. Harvard University.
Global Environmental Governance
Anand, Sudhir, and Amartya K. Sen (2000). ‘Human Development and Economic Sustainability’. World Development 28 (12): 2029-49.
Poverty and Environment Partnership (2005) Sustaining the environment to fight poverty and achieve the MDGs. www.undp.org/pei/peppapers.html
UNED / IISD (2004). Human Well-Being, Poverty and Ecosystem Services: Exploring the Links.
Poverty and Environment Partnership (2005) Investing in environment for poverty reduction
Poverty and Environment Partnership (2005) Assessing environment's role in poverty reduction
Poverty and Environment Partnership (2005) Linking poverty reduction and environmental management
Kanjee, N. and Dobie, P. (2002). NHDR Environment Thematic Guidance Note (Available online)
