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1 J.K. Boyce Spring 2013 Economics 765: Economic Development Topics: This course is the first in a two-semester introduction to the field of development economics. Major topics include: (1) Distribution and well-being: Poverty, inequality, and determinants of variation in the distribution of income across countries and over time. (2) Agriculture: Agricultural markets, agricultural growth, agrarian structure, technological and institutional change. (3) Environment: Investment in natural capital; adjustment of national accounts for environmental degradation; population policy debates; political economy of sustainable and non-sustainable development. (4) External sector: External assistance, international finance, and political conditionality. (5) Conflict: The economic implications of conflict and war-to-peace transitions. Books: The following books are available for purchase at Amherst Books (8 Main St, Amherst). They are also on print reserve at the W.E.B. DuBois Library. D. Ray, Development Economics (Princeton, 1998). A. K. Sen, Development as Freedom (Knopf, 1999). J.K. Boyce, The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (University of Hawaii, 1993). A.V. Banerjee, R. Bénabou & D. Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (Oxford, 2006). L. Ndikumana and J.K. Boyce, Africa s Odious Debts (Zed, 2011). Other readings are available on the course Moodle site or, in cases indicated below, on print reserve at the library. Assignments and expectations will be discussed in class.

2 SCHEDULE 2 Date Topic Reading list section January 22 Introduction January 24, 29 Development & welfare I(a) January 31, February 5 Inequality & poverty measurement I(b) February 7, 12 Distribution & growth I(c) February 14, 21 Agrarian structure II(a) February 26 Green revolution II(b) February 28 Land markets II(c) March 5 Agricultural diversity II(d) March 7 Externalities & Sustainability III(a/b) March 12 Population III(c) March 14 Political economy of environment III(d) March 26 Natural asset building strategies III(e) March 28, April 2 External indebtedness IV(a) April 4, 9 External assistance IV(b) April 11, 16 State, IFIs & Political conditionality IV(c/d) April 18 Causes of conflict V(a) April 23 The humanitarian dilemma V(b) April 25 War-to-peace transitions V(c) April 30 Economics of statebuilding V(d)

3 ECON 765 SPRING 2013 READING LIST 3 I. DISTRIBUTION AND WELL-BEING (a) Development and welfare * Sen, A.K. (1983) Development: Which Way Now? EJ 93: ; reprinted in his book Resources, Values and Development, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984, pp * Sen, A.K. (1999) Development as Freedom. New York: Knopf, esp. Chs. 2 & 12. [Print reserves] Ackerman, F. et al. (1997) Human Well-Being and Economic Goals. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. [Print reserves] Agarwal, B. (1992) Gender Relations and Food Security, in L. Beneria & S. Feldman, eds. Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty and Women s Work. Boulder: Westview, Ch.8. Alkire, S. (2002) Dimensions of Human Development, WD 30(2): Helliwell, J., R. Layard and J. Sachs (2012) World Happiness Report. New York: Earth Institute, Ch. 1. Sen, A.K. (1987) On Ethics & Economics. Oxford: Blackwell. [Print reserves] Sen, A.K. (1981) Poverty and Famines. Oxford: OUP, esp. pp. 1-8, [Print reserves + online at Stanton, E. (2006) Accounting for Inequality: A Proposed Revision of the Human Development Index, Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, Working Paper No, 119. Available at (b) Inequality and poverty: Measurement issues * Ravallion, M. (1994) Poverty Comparisons. Chur: Harwood, esp. pp * Ray, D. (1998) Development Economics. Princeton: PUP, Chs. 6, 8. [Print reserves] Asterisks indicate readings to be done first for each section.

4 4 Bardhan, K. and Klasen, S. (1999) UNDP s Gender-Related Indices: A Critical Review, WD 27(6): Beneria, L. and I. Permanyer (2010) The Measurement of Socio-Economic Gender Inequality Revisited, DC 41(3): Boyce, J.K. (1993) The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era. London: Macmillan, pp , [Print reserves] Carter, M.R. and C.B. Barrett (2006) The Economics of Poverty Traps and Persistent Poverty: An Asset-Based Approach, JDS 42(2): Deaton, A. (2006) Measuring Poverty, in A.V. Banerjee, R. Bénabou & D. Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (OUP), ch. 1. [Print reserves] Milanovic, B. (2007) Global Income Inequality: What it Is and Why it Matters, in Jomo K.S. and J. Baudot, eds., Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization and Inequality. New York: Zed Books, ch. 1. Sen, A.K. (1990) More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing, New York Review of Books, 20 December. Sutcliffe, B. (2007) A Converging or Diverging World? in Jomo K.S. and J. Baudot, eds., Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization and Inequality. New York: Zed Books, ch. 3. (c) Distribution and growth * Ferreira, F. and M. Ravallion (2009) Poverty and Inequality : The Global Context, in W. Salverda, B. Nolan and T.M. Smeeding, eds,, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Oxford: OUP, ch. 24. * Griffin, K. and Ickowitz, A. (1997) The Distribution of Wealth and the Pace of Development, United Nations Development Programme, Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division, Working Paper 3, November. * Ray, D. (1998) Development Economics. Princeton: PUP, Ch. 7. [Print reserves] Ahluwalia, M.S. and Chenery, H. (1974) The Economic Framework, in H. Chenery et al., Redistribution with Growth, Oxford: OUP, Ch. 2. Bourguignon, François (2003) The Growth Elasticity of Poverty Reduction: Explaining Heterogeneity across Countries and Time Periods, in Theo S. Eicher and Stephen J.

5 Turnovski, eds., Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 5 Duclos, Jean-Yves, Joan Esteban, and Debraj Ray (2004) Polarization: Concepts, Measurement, Estimation, Econometrica 72(6): Kuznets, S. (1955) 'Economic Growth and Income Inequality', AER 45: Milanovic, B. (2003) Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization As We Know It, WD 31(4): Piketty, T. (2006) The Kuznets Curve: Yesterday and Tomorrow, in A.V. Banerjee, R. Bénabou & D. Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (OUP), ch. 4. [Print reserves] Ravallion, M. (2006) Transfers and Safety Nets in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trace- Offs and Policy Options, in A.V. Banerjee, R. Bénabou & D. Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (OUP), ch. 14. [Print reserves] Voitchovsky, Sarah (2009) Inequality and Economic Growth in W. Salverda, B. Nolan and T.M. Smeeding, eds,, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Oxford: OUP, ch. 22. II. AGRICULTURE (a) Agrarian structure * Ray, D. (1998) Development Economics. Princeton: PUP, Chs [Print reserves] * Sen, A.K. (2000) Employment, Technology, and Development. New York: OUP, Chs [See also: Sen, A.K. (1996) Employment, institutions, and technology: Some policy issues, International Labour Review 135: ] Bhandari, R. (2007) The Role of Social Distance in Sharecropping Efficiency, Journal of Economic Studies 34(4): Binswanger, H.P. and Deininger, K. (1997) Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries, JEL 35, December: Boyce, J.K. (1993) The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era. London: Macmillan, Chs [Print reserves] Deere, C.D. and León, M. (2003) The Gender Asset Gap: Land in Latin America, WD 31(6):

6 Handy, J. (2009) Almost Idiotic Wretchedness : A Long History of Blaming Peasants, JPS 36(2): Lipton, M. (2009) Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property rights and property wrongs. London: Routledge, ch. 2. (b) The green revolution * Boyce, J.K. (1993) The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era. London: Macmillan, Chs [Print reserves] * Griffin, K.B. (1999) Alternative Strategies for Economic Development. London: Macmillan, Ch.6. Cullather, N. (2010) The Hungry World: America s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ch. 7. Eswaran, M. and A. Kotwal (2006) The Role of Agriculture in Development, in A.V. Banerjee, R. Bénabou & D. Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (OUP), ch. 8. [Print reserves] Evenson, R.E and D. Gollin (2003) Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000, Science 300 (5620): Dorward, A. et al. (2004) A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth, WD 32(1): Asian Development Bank (2000) A Study of Rural Asia: Vol. 2: The Growth and Sustainability of Agriculture in Asia., Ch. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Asian Development Bank. (c) Land markets & land redistribution * Griffin, K.B., Khan, A.R. and Ickowitz, A. (2002) Poverty and the Distribution of Land, Journal of Agrarian Change 2(3): * Akram-Lodhi, A.H. (2008) (Re)imagining Agrarian Relations? The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development, DC 39(6): [Ereserves] Borras, S.M. (2007) Pro-Poor Land Reform: A Critique. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, ch. 1. Binswanger, H.P., Deininger, K. and Feder, G. (1995) Power, Distortions, Revolt and Reform in Agricultural Land Relations, J. Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan, eds.,

7 Handbook of Development Economics, Volume III. Amsterdam: Elsevier, Ch. 42. [Ereserves] 7 Deininger, K. (2003) Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction. Oxford: OUP, Ch. 3. Lahiff, E., Borras, S.M. and Kay, C. (2007) Market-led Agrarian Reform: Policies, performance and prospects, TWQ 28(8): Lipton, M. (2009) Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property rights and property wrongs. London: Routledge, ch. 1. Deininger, K. and D. Byerlee (2011) Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? Washington, DC: World Bank, Overview + Chs Available at De Schutter, O. (2011) How Not to Think of Land-grabbling: Three critiques of largescale investments in farmland, JPS 38(2): Anseeuw, W. et al. (2012) Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South. Bern: Centre for Development and Environment. April. (d) Genetic diversity and its erosion * Boyce, J.K. (2006) A Future for Small Farms? Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture, in James K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Robert Pollin, eds., Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin. Northampton: Edward Elgar, pp Isakson, S. Ryan (2009) No hay ganancia en la milpa: The agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agribiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands, JPS 36(4): Brush, S.B. (1998) Bio-cooperation and the Benefits of Crop Genetic Resources: The Case of Mexican Maize, WD 26(5): Brush, S.B. (2000) The Issues of in situ Conservation of Crop Genetic Resources, in S.B. Brush, ed., Genes in the Field: On-Farm Conservation of Crop Diversity. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, pp Swanson, T. (1996) Global Values of Biological Diversity: The public interest in the conservation of plant genetic resources for agriculture, Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 105: 1-7.

8 III. ENVIRONMENT 8 (a) Externalities and development * Boyce, J.K. (2004) Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp Grossman, Gene M. and Krueger, Alan B. (1995), Economic Growth and the Environment, QJE 110(2), Peters, G.P. et al. (2011) Growth in Emissions Transfers via International Trade from 1990 to 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 25 April. Potsdam Institute (2012) Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 o C Warmer World Must be Avoided. Washington, DC: World Bank, chs. 6 & 7. Selwyn, P. (1985) 'Costs and Benefits of a Modest Proposal', WD 13( 5): (b) Sustainability * Daly, H. (1991) Steady-State Economics (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2 nd edn). Esp. pp , * Torras, M. (1999) Inequality, Resource Depletion, and Welfare Accounting: Applications to Indonesia and Costa Rica, WD 27(7): Jodha, N.S. (2007) Natural Resource Management and Poverty Alleviation in Mountain Areas, in James K. Boyce, Sunita Narain, and Elizabeth A. Stanton, eds., Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration. London and Chicago: Anthem Press, ch. 2. [Print reserves] Harris, J.A. et al. (2001) A Survey of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. [Print reserves] Pearce, D., Barbier, E. and Markandya, A. (1990) Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World (Aldershot: Edward Elgar), Chs Repetto, R. (1989) 'Nature's Resources as Productive Assets', Challenge, Sept.-Oct., pp (c) Population growth * Eswaran, M. (2006) Fertility in Developing Countries, in A.V. Banerjee, R. Bénabou & D. Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (OUP), ch. 10. [Print reserves]

9 Birdsall, N. (1988) 'Economic Approaches to Population Growth,' in H. Chenery and T.N. Srinivasan, eds., Handbook of Development Economics, vol. I (Amsterdam: Elsevier), pp Hartmann, B. (1995) Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control. Boston: South End Press, Ch. 2. Kelley, Allen C. (1999) The Impacts of Rapid Population Growth on Poverty, Food Production, and the Environment. United Nations, 1999 World Population Monitoring Report. Ray, D. (1998) Development Economics. Princeton: PUP, Ch. 9. [Print reserves] Sen, A. (1994) 'Population: Delusion and Reality', New York Review of Books, Sept. 22, pp Sen, A.K. (1997) Population Policy: Authoritarianism versus cooperation, Journal of Population Economics 10: (d) Political economy of environmental degradation * Boyce, J.K. (2007) Inequality and Environmental Protection, in Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, and Samuel Bowles, eds., Inequality, Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp * United Nations Development Programme (2011) Human Development Report 2011: Sustainability and Equity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, chs. 3 & 4. Agarwal, B. (2000) Conceptualising Environmental Collective Action: Why Gender Matters, CJE 24: Boyce, J.K. (2002) The Political Economy of the Environment. Northampton: Edward Elgar, Chs. 4 & 5. [Print reserves] Collier, Paul (2010) The Plundered Planet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 3. Collier, Paul and Benedikt Goderis (2007) Prospects for Commodity Exporters: Hunky Dory or Humpty Dumpty? World Economics 8(2): Guha, R. (2000) Environmentalism: A Global History. New York: Longman, Chs. 6 & 8. [Print reserves] Leach, M., R. Mearns and I. Scoones (1997) Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management, WD 27(2):

10 Martinez-Alier, J. and M. O Connor (1999) Distributional Issues: An Overview, in J.C.J.M. van den Bergh, ed., Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ch Verhoeven, Harry (2011) Climate Change, Conflict and Development in Sudan: Neo- Malthusian Global Narratives and Local Power Struggles, DC 42(3): (e) Natural asset building * Boyce, J.K., S. Narain, and E. Stanton (2007) Introduction, in Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration. London and Chicago: Anthem Press. [Print reserves] Baer, Paul (2012) The greenhouse development rights framework for global burden sharing: reflection on principles and prospects, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. doi: /wcc.201. Hall, Anthony (2007) Extractive Reserves: Building Natural Assets in the Brazilian Amazon, in James K. Boyce, Sunita Narain, and Elizabeth A. Stanton, eds., Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration. London and Chicago: Anthem Press, ch. 5. [Print reserves] Kurien, John (2007) The Blessing of the Commons: Small-Scale Fisheries, Community Property Rights, and Coastal Natural Assets, in James K. Boyce, Sunita Narain, and Elizabeth A. Stanton, eds., Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration. London and Chicago: Anthem Press, ch. 1. [Print reserves] Pagiola, S. et al. (2005) Can Payments for Environmental Services Help Reduce Poverty? An Exploration of the Issues and the Evidence to Date from Latin America, WD 32(2): Newell, Peter and Joanna Wheeler (2006) Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability. London: Zed Books, ch. 1. IV. EXTERNAL SECTOR (a) External indebtedness * Ndikumana, L. and Boyce, J.K. (2011) Africa s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent. London: Zed. [Print reserves] * Buchheit, L.C., G.M. Gulati and R.B. Thompson (2007) The dilemma of odious debts, Duke Law Journal, 56:

11 Buckley, Ross P. (2003) The Rich Borrow and the Poor Repay: The Fatal Flaw in International Finance, World Policy Journal 19(4): Gwynne, S.C. (1986) Selling Money. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Chs. 1, 7, & 8. Payer, C. (1991) Lent and Lost: Foreign Capital and Third World Development. London: Zed, pp [Print reserves] Streeten, P. (1987) Structural Adjustment: A Survey of the Issues and Options, WD 15(12): (b) External assistance * Tarp, F. (2010) Aid, Growth, and Development, in G. Mavrotas, ed., Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. Oxford: OUP, pp * Griffin, K.B. and Enos, J. (1970) 'Foreign Assistance: Objectives and Consequences', EDCC, 18: * Boyce, J.K. (2002) Unpacking Aid, DC 33(2): Auty, R.M. (2010) Aid and Rent-driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya, and Mozambique Compared, in G. Mavrotas, ed., Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. Oxford: OUP, pp [Print reserves]. Clemens, Michael A., Steven Radelet, and Rikhil Bhavnani (2004) Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development, Working Paper No. 44, July. Dollar, D. and Pritchett, L. (1998) Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn t, and Why. Washington: World Bank, pp. 1-27, [Print reserves] Duncan, A. and G. Williams (2012) Making Development Assistance More Effective Through Using Political-Economy Analysis, Development Policy Review 30(2): Hartmann, B. and Boyce, J.K. (1983) A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village. London: Zed, Chs Riddell, Roger C. (2007) Does Foreign Aid Really Work? Oxford: OUP, chs , [Print reserves] (c) The state and the IFIs * Amsden, Alice H. (2001) The Rise of The Rest : Challenges to the West from Late-

12 Industrializing Economies. Oxford: OUP, chs. 1, 9, Acemoglu, D. and J.A. Robinson (2012) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown, chs. 13 & 15. Bardhan, P. and Udry, C. (1999) Development Microeconomics, Oxford: OUP, Ch. 17. Grabel, Ilene (2011) Not Your Grandfather s IMF: Global Crisis, Productive Incoherence and Developmental Policy Space, Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, Working Paper No Khattry, B. and J.M. Rao (2002) Fiscal Faux Pas? An Analysis of the Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization, WD 30(8): Rodrik, D. (1994) King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank and the East Asian Miracle, in A. Fishlow et al., Miracle or Design? Lessons from the East Asian Experience. Washington: ODC. Rogoff, K. (2002) Rogoff s Discontent with Stiglitz, IMF Survey 31(13), 18 July, pp Shapiro, H. (2007) Industrial Policy and Growth, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Working Paper No. 53, August. Stiglitz, J.E. (2002) Globalization and Its Discontents, New York: Norton, chs. 4 & 8. Wade, R. (1996) Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective, New Left Review 217: (d) Political conditionality * Stokke, O. (1995) Aid and Political Conditionality: Core Issues and State of the Art, in O. Stokke, ed., Aid and Political Conditionality. London: Frank Cass, pp * Weaver, C. (2008) Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. Princeton: Princeton University Press, ch. 4. De Haan, A. and M. Everest-Philips (2010) Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics? in in G. Mavrotas, ed., Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. Oxford: OUP, pp Hout, Wil (2007) The Politics of Aid Selectivity: Good governance criteria in World Bank, US and Dutch development assistance, London: Routledge, chs. 1, 2, 8. [Print reserves] Crawford, G. (1997) Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality: Issues of Effectiveness and

13 Consistency, Democratization 4(3): Doornbos, M. (2001) Good Governance: The Rise and Decline of a Policy Metaphor? JDS 37(6): Neumayer, E. (2003) The Pattern of Aid Giving: The impact of good governance on development assistance. London: Routledge, chs. 1, 2, 9. V. CONFLICT (a) Causes of conflict * Collier, Paul et al. (2003) Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. Chs * Hoeffler, Anke (2011) On the Causes of Civil War, in M. Garfinkel and S. Skaperdas, eds., The Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Peace and Conflict. * Keen, D. (2008) Complex Emergencies. Cambridge: Polity Press, chs * Keen, D. (2012) Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important That Winning Them. New Haven: Yale University Press, Ch.1 & Conclusion. De Soysa, I. (2002) Paradise Is a Bazaar? Greed, Creed, and Governance in Civil War, , Journal of Peace Research 39(4): Esteban, J. and Ray, D. (2008) On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict, AER 98(5): Fairhead, J. (2000) The Conflict over Natural and Environmental Resources, in E. W. Nafziger, F. Stewart, and R. Vayrynen, eds., War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp Nafziger, E.W. and Auvinen, J. (2002) Economic Development, Inequality, War, and State Violence, WD 30(2): Sambanis, N. (2004) Using Case Studies to Expand Economic Models of Civil War, Perspectives on Politics 2(2): Stewart, F. et al. (2007) Promoting Group Justice, New York: Center on International Cooperation, and Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, Public Finance in Post-Conflict Environments Policy Paper, November. Available at

14 14 Uvin, P. (1998) Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. West Hartford: Kumarian. Esp. chs. 6, 7, & 11. [Print reserves] (b) Humanitarian dilemmas * Anderson, M.B. (1999) Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace or War. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, Chs. 2 & 4. * Boyce, J.K. (2002) Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 4. Keen, D. (2012) Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important That Winning Them. New Haven: Yale University Press, Ch.2. Collinson, S. and S. Elhawary (2012) Humanitarian Space: Trends and Issues. London: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group, Policy Brief No. 46. April. Davies, K. (2012) Continuity, Change and Contest: Meanings of Humanitarian from the Religion of Humanity to the Kosovo War. London: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group Working Paper. August. Cortright, D. and G.A. Lopez (2000) The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, chs. 2, [Print reserves] Jackson, A. and A. Guistozzi (2012) Talking to the Other Side: Humanitarian Engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan. London: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group Working Paper. December. Leader, N. (1998) Proliferating Principles; Or How to Sup with the Devil without Getting Eaten, Disasters 22(4): (c) War-to-peace transitions * Boyce, J.K. and M. Pastor (1997) Macroeconomic Policy and Peace Building in El Salvador, in K. Kumar, ed., Rebuilding Societies after Civil War. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, Ch.13. Collier, P. (2009) Post-conflict Recovery: How Should Strategies Be Distinctive? Journal of African Economies 18(1): i99-i131. Goodhand, J. and M. Sedra (2007) Bribes or Bargains? Peace Conditionalities and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan, International Peacekeeping 14(1):

15 Langer, A. and F. Stewart (2012) Macro-Economic Policies in Post-Conflict Countries, in A. Langer, F. Stewart and R. Venugopal, eds., Horizontal Inequalities and Post- Conflict Development. London: Palgrave Macmillan, Ch. 3. United Nations Development Programme (2008) Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity. New York: UNDP, Bureau of Conflict Prevention and Recovery, see esp. ch. 3. Wake, C. (2008) An Unaided Peace? The (unintended) consequences of international aid on the Oslo peace process, Conflict, Security & Development 8(1): (d) The economics of statebuilding * Boyce, J.K. and O Donnell, M. (2007) Peace and the Public Purse: Economic Policies for Postwar Statebuilding. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, Chs. 1 & 10. Browne, S. (2010) Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder? in G. Mavrotas, ed., Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. Oxford: OUP, pp [Print reserves]. Carnahan. M. and C. Lockhart (2008) Peacebuilding and Public Finance, in Charles T. Call, ed., Building States to Build Peace. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, Ch.. 4. Gupta, S. et al. (2008) Post-Conflict Countries: Strategies for Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions, in T. Addison & T. Bruck, eds., Making Peace Work: The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction. London: Palgrave, Ch. 8. OECD (2010). Do No Harm: International Engagement for Statebuilding. Paris: OECD, Chs Available at Woodward, S. (2011) State-Building and Peace-Building: What Theory and Whose Role? in Richard Kozul-Wright and Pierguiseppe Fortunato, eds., Securing Peace: State- Building and Economic Development in Post-Conflict Countries. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp Journal abbreviations: AER American Economic Review CJE Cambridge Journal of Economics DC Development & Change EDCC Economic Development and Cultural Change

16 EJ Economic Journal JDS Journal of Development Studies JPS Journal of Peasant Studies JEL Journal of Economic Literature ODS Oxford Development Studies OEP Oxford Economic Papers QJE Quarterly Journal of Economics TWQ Third World Quarterly WD World Development 16

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