International Institutions and Late Development

Prof Kenneth Shadlen

This course examines the politics of the international economy. We analyse the overarching rules and
regulations that structure the international economy, and thereby provide context for development
policy, and we assess the role of a range of actors (e.g. governments, firms, non-state actors) in
shaping and reshaping the international economic order.

understanding the ways that developing countries respond to and participate in international regimes
and organisations, and how changes in global economic governance affect opportunities for economic
development.

of the role that international organisations play in global politics,

politics of debt relief for the poorest and most heavily-indebted countries

analyse the politics of debt restructuring for middle-income countries where significant shares of the
debt is owed to private/commercial creditors.

politics of international trade, investment, and intellectual property.

s organised around a dialogue between multilateral and regional frameworks for integration into the
global economy,

we analyse contrasting trajectories of change in two development regimes, one regarding "industrial
transformation" and mobility in the international division of labour, and another regarding
"humanitarianism" and poverty reduction.

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions

Prof Timothy Forsyth CON.8.05

This course is for MSc students who wish to study social and political aspects of environmental change and its implications
for international development. The aim is to summarise the key current debates about environment and development from
perspectives of social and political theory with special reference to institutional theory, livelihoods, and inclusive policy
interventions.

The course is structured to analyse the challenges of making well-informed environmental interventions in the face of poverty

and vulnerability, and then seeking practical solutions to these dilemmas.To begin with, the course considers the nature of

environmental problems within a development context, and what this means for environmental science and norms as

applied in developing countries. Themes include assessing environmental science and expertise in development contexts,

adaptation to population growth and resource scarcity; gender and environment; and vulnerability to natural hazards. As the

course progresses, it considers debates about policy interventions such as common property regime theory; theories of the

state and environment (including resistance and social movements); community-based natural resource management and

Sustainable Livelihoods; adaptation to climate change; forests; and urban environmental policy (these latter themes involve

debates on multi-level, multi-actor governance involving the connections of local development and global environmental

policy).
Global Environmental Governance (for global env.
Policy)
Prof Kathryn Hochstetler

Course content

This course is for any MSc student who wishes to study the politics of global environmental policy from
the perspective of environmental governance and international development. The aim is to summarise
debates about global environmental problems and to review the contributions of debates about
governance to political solutions. The main theoretical focus of the course is on understanding the
evolution of environmental policy regimes at multiple scales and with multiple actors. The guiding
empirical focus is on the role of developing countries in global environmental governance and the
effects of environmental policy regimes on their development strategies and outcomes. Some of this
draws upon debates within International Relations, but this course also considers other literatures about
environmental politics. Only part of global environmental governance takes place in formal spheres
specifically devoted to environmental topics. Economic institutions like trade and financial institutions
also play a key role and are covered here.

To make the course focused, it will consider primarily anthropocentric climate change, energy, and
biodiversity and forests. In addition, these topics will be analysed from the perspective of the role of
states and inter-state agreements; business actors and non-governmental organisations (NGOs); the
regulation of trade; and the evolution of financial assistance, including from the World Bank.

KEY ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism

Prof Duncan Green

Course content

There are two blocks in this course:

1. Understanding How Change Happens, including systems thinking and power analysis

2. The analytical frameworks used by INGOs and other change agents

This course introduces students to some of the analytical frameworks and practical techniques used by
INGOs such as Oxfam (where the course leader is senior strategic adviser) and other activists (broadly
defined, including 'change agents' in governments and the private sector) in influencing political, social
and economic policy and practice.

Lectures will introduce the importance of systems thinking and power analysis in understanding and
influencing processes of change and the role of civil society and advocacy in driving such change.

These will be used to explore how activists and activist organizations use theories of change as an
organizing tool for influencing.

The course is designed for students who have been, or intend to become, active in driving change,
whether as members of civil society organizations, in government, in aid donors or in the private sector.
You will develop your understanding both of endogenous change processes in developing countries,
and the role and limitations of deliberate efforts to bring about political, social and economic change.

Students will be asked to come with an initial idea for an influencing exercise (for example a campaign,
policy reform, or effort to shift public attitudes) and will apply the coursework to that case study,
developing a Theory of Change at the end of the term that will be assessed.

Students will be required to produce a blog post and vlogs (video blogs, as part of group work)
summarizing their individual and group projects, which will also be summatively assessed (students will
receive

Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic

DevelopmentDr Shirin Madon
his is an interdisciplinary course about understanding the role played by Information & Communication
Technologies (ICTs) towards achieving developmental goals. We begin by reviewing dominant
theoretical perspectives on development identifying assumptions held about the role of information,
communication and technologies. Using this as our critical frame of reference, we focus on a variety of
current topics including global software outsourcing, e-commerce/ m-commerce, ICT and smallholder
agriculture, ICT and education, e-government and telecentres, health informatics, ICT and collective
action, ICT and humanitarianism.

DV492 Half Unit

Economic Development Policy III: Government
Policy Analysis
This course explores key issues in government policies in developing countries. The course will draw on
specific examples chosen from development cases worldwide to learn which policies have worked,
which ones have not, and how a rigorous analysis of these experiences can inform the design of better
economic development policies in the future. It begins introducing concepts from public economics to
discuss the scope and impacts of government interventions. In particular, the course will cover issues
related to market failures, redistribution, public goods and externalities. The course will also discuss
theoretical and empirical work on the economic consequences of government interventions, with
particular focus economic incidence, efficiency trade-offs and unintended consequences of policies. In
the second part, it focuses on challenges in raising government revenue and delivering public service in
the developing world context, where limited state and fiscal capacity impose important constraints in
policymaking. Beyond these topics, the course will provide background on relevant analytical tools in
quantitative research, and develop skills to interpret empirical evidence in development economics.
Gender, Globalisation and Development: An
Introduction
r Anouk Patel-Campillo (and other GI faculty), Tower 1.11.01M

Course content

This course will provide students with a knowledge of two key interconnected and intersecting
literatures: gender and development and gender and globalisation. We begin by defining and theorising
gender, development and globalisation and their operation in material spaces, policy and practice.

The course considers contemporary theories of globalisation and development and the differences that
a gender perspective makes. A particular focus is on how globalisation is associated with widening
social, spatial, gender and racial inequalities, illustrated by case studies of global integration and uneven
development. Specific reference is made to the global division of labour, employment, environmental
change, carework and migration; contrasting and alternative models of development within
neoliberalism are considered by reference to the development strategies of China and Latin America
and their implications for social and gender equalities. The final session brings the issues raised in the
first part of the course to a conclusion by reviewing change, continuity and risk in the contemporary
globalised world, via a student-led poster session.

Gender, Postcoloniality, Development: Critical

Perspectives and New Directions
This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Sumi Madhok Tower 1, 11.01N.

ourse content

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the growing body of scholarship that critically
interrogates gender and developmentalism at various postcolonial sites. It provides an opportunity for
students to encounter and engage with canonical works within postcolonial theory alongside those of
gender and feminist theory in order to examine the historical and contemporary policy and practices in
relation to gender and development. As such, the course combines a study of the
historical/textual/cultural/political and philosophical in relation to and alongside the political-economic in
order to explore questions of developmentalism, subalternity, orientalism, representation, agency,
neoliberalism, globalisation, human rights and humanitarianism. Finally, the course also introduces
students to new directions in contemporary theoretical thinking that are either explicit critiques of
postcolonial scholarship, i.e. texts such as Empire and Ethics or are critical engagements and even
critical extensions of postcolonial thinking into new directions e.g. Transnationalism.

Globalisation, Gender and Development: Theorising

Policy and Practice
This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Prof Naila Kabeer CON.7.13

Availability

This course is available on the Global MSc in Management, Global MSc in Management (CEMS MIM),
Global MSc in Management (MBA Exchange), MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development
Studies, MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender, Media and Culture, MSc in
Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Urban Policy
(LSE and Sciences Po) and MSc in Women, Peace and Security. This course is available as an outside
option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course cannot be taken alongside GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development.

There will be limited availability on this course - 34 places.

Course content

This course is concerned with theorising policies and practice in the field of gender and international
development. The course outlines key contributions to the analysis of power within public policy making
processes and examines feminist visions of social change which draw on ideas about capabilities,
empowerment, citizenship and gender justice to engage with these policy processes. This is explored in
greater detail through case studies of feminist struggles over recognition, redistribution and
representation as they play out in relation to particular policy issues, namely violence against women,
sexual and reproductive rights, microfinance, social protection, gender quotas and collective action.

Public Management Theory and Doctrine

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible
Other postgraduates require permission of teachers responsible.

Course content

The course offers an intensive introduction into key areas of public management with reference to both
developed and lesser developed world contexts. Topics include administrative doctrine, implementation,
organizational change and inertia, capacity building, performance-management, leadership, institution
creation, transparency and risk management. Public management is treated as an interdisciplinary field
of study, with a particular emphasis on the administrative practices and change as well as the critical
analysis of practical arguments about Public Management

GY407
Globalization, Regional Development and Policy
This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Prof Andres Rodriguez-Pose and Prof Michael Storper

Availability

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Local Economic Development. This course is available on the
MSc in African Development, MSc in Environment and Development, MSc in Regional And Urban
Planning Studies and MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po). This course is available with
permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The number of students that can be accommodated is limited. If the course is over-subscribed, places
will be allocated at the Departments discretion and a waiting list may be created. For further details,
please contact your relevant Programme Coordinator.

Pre-requisites

A good background is required in one of the fields of management, economics, economic geography,
regional and urban studies.

Course content

This course analyses the theory and practice of economic development focusing on response to
change, stimulation of development, and methods of local or regional delivery. Term A: Theories of
regional economic development, location, and trade are applied to the contemporary process known as
globalization, and used to decipher this phenomenon and its effects on development, employment, and
political institutions. A number of major issues for regional and industrial policy are considered, including
trade, convergence/divergence, corporate power, knowledge and technology, governance, and inter-
place competition. Term B: This section of the course deals with the management and institutions of
local and regional economic development. It dwells on the socio-economic implications of the
emergence of local and regional governments and institutions as key actors in the design and
implementation of economic development strategies across the world. In particular, the first section of
the course analyses the consequences for economic efficiency and equality of the gradual but relentless
shift of development responsibilities from the national and the supranational to the local and regional
scale, linked of political and fiscal decentralisation, The second section of the course focuses, from a
theoretical and empirical perspective, on the strategies being implemented by subnational governments
across the world in order to cope and redress development problems. Strategies based on the building
of infrastructure, the attraction of foreign direct investment, the support to local production and the
promotion of local human resources are analysed in different institutional and governance contexts. The
course draws on examples from Europe, the US, Latin America, and Asia.

Teaching

20 hours of lectures and 15 hours of lectures in the MT. 20 hours of lectures and 20 hours of seminars
in the LT.

Formative coursework

Students will be expected to participate in group debates throughout the course, with written
presentation slides required. Feedback is provided in the sessions.

Indicative reading

S Brakman, H Garretsen & C van Marrewijk, The New Introduction to Geographical Economics,
Cambridge University Press, 2009; G Clark, M Gertler & M Feldman (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of
Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, 2000; P Dicken, Global Shift: Mapping the Changing
Contours of the World Economy, Sage, 2007; J H Dunning (Ed), Regions, Globalization and the
Knowledge-Based Economy, Oxford University Press, 2000; J V Henderson & J F Thisse
(Eds)Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, volume 4: Cities and Geography, Elsevier, 2004; P
Krugman & M Obstfeld, International Economics: Theory and Policy, Harper-Collins, 1991; A Pike, A
Rodrguez-Pose & J Tomaney, Local and Regional Development, Routledge, 2006; A Pike, A
Rodrguez-Pose & J Tomaney, Handbook of Local and Regional Development, Routledge, 2011; A
Scott (Ed),Global City Regions, Oxford University Press, 2000; M Storper, The Regional World:
Territorial Development in a Global Economy, Guilford Press, 1997. A number of more specialised texts
will be recommended at the beginning of the course.

Environment and Development

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Benjamin Groom STC. S420, Dr Charles Palmer STC. S303, Dr Richard Perkins STC. S413 and
Prof Giles Atkinson STC. S302

Availability

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Environment and Development. This course is available on the
MSc in African Development, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies and
MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation. This course is available with permission as an outside
option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The number of students that can be accommodated is limited. If the course is over-subscribed, places
will be allocated at the Departments discretion and a waiting list may be created. For further details,
please contact your relevant Programme Coordinator

Pre-requisites

Students who have not completed a course in first year undergraduate level Economics might find it
useful to audit EC100 Economics A

Course content

'Environment and Development' explores the complex relationship between environment and
development using the concepts and tools used in applied economic analysis: ecological, development,
environmental, and institutional economics. Focusing on a number of selected topics and issues of
contemporary policy relevance, this relationship is examined in the MT at a more macro scale before
moving to a micro-scale investigation of key ecosystem services and cross-cutting themes in LT.

MT: Theories of economic development, well-being, wealth and the challenge of sustainability; Nature,
natural capital and economic development; Measuring progress towards sustainability; Economic
growth and the environment; Trade, investment and the environment; Technological lock-in, system
transformation and the innovation of green technologies; Corporate social responsibility: Drivers,
strategy and outcomes.

LT: Environment-poverty trap and the role of population growth; Institutions and natural resource
management; Biodiversity and economic development; Agriculture and food security; Water
management and economic development; The energy transition and low-carbon development; Biofuels:
food, fuel, and the environment; Tropical deforestation and dealing with market failure; Urban
environment development; Policy design and evaluation for environment and development
nvironment and Development: Sustainability,
Technology and Business
This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Richard Perkins S413, Prof Giles Atkinson and Dr Charles Palmer

Course content

Theories of economic development, well-being, wealth and the challenge of sustainability; Nature,
natural capital and development; Measuring progress towards sustainability; Economic growth and the
environment; Trade, investment and the environment; Technological lock-in, system transformation and
the innovation of green technologies; Corporate social responsibility: Drivers, strategies and outcomes

Environment and Development: Ecosystem

Services and the Global South
This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Charles Palmer STC. S303 and Dr Benjamin Groom STC. S420

Availability

This course is available on the MSc in African Development, MSc in Development Management, MSc in
Development Studies, MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change and MSc in Human
Geography (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on
other programmes where regulations permit.

The number of students that can be accommodated is limited. If the course is over-subscribed, places
will be allocated at the Departments discretion and a waiting list may be created. For further details,
please contact your relevant Programme Coordinator.

Pre-requisites
Students who have not completed a course in first year undergraduate level Economics might find it
useful to audit EC100 Economics A.

Course content

The demand for and supply of energy, food, and water have important implications for resource use and
the environment. They also serve as building blocks for economic development. With a focus on
individuals and countries in the global south, this course is evidence based and primarily utilises the
concepts and tools of environmental economics and development economics. It aims to impart
knowledge and develop critical thinking about a number of selected topics concerned with the interface
between environment and development. Structured over 10 weeks, the course is divided into three
distinct parts. After introducing the course (week 1), Part I concentrates on two topics, which play a key
role in conditioning the supply of ecosystem services, institutions (week 2) and biodiversity (week 3).
Part II devotes a week each to food (week 4), water (week 5), and energy (week 7), with special
attention paid to issues of contemporary policy relevance, for example, food security, climate
adaptation, and the energy transition. Part III focuses on three selected topics, which cut across many of
the themes covered in the first two parts of the course: biofuels (week 8); forests (week 9); and, urban
(week 10). The course concludes with a closer examination of policy used to manage the some of the
trade-offs between environment and development studied earlier in the course (week 11).

GY469 Half Unit

Environment and Development: Ecosystem
Services and the Global South
This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Charles Palmer STC. S303 and Dr Benjamin Groom STC. S420

Availability

This course is available on the MSc in African Development, MSc in Development Management, MSc in
Development Studies, MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change and MSc in Human
Geography (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on
other programmes where regulations permit.

The number of students that can be accommodated is limited. If the course is over-subscribed, places
will be allocated at the Departments discretion and a waiting list may be created. For further details,
please contact your relevant Programme Coordinator.

Pre-requisites
Students who have not completed a course in first year undergraduate level Economics might find it
useful to audit EC100 Economics A.

Course content

The demand for and supply of energy, food, and water have important implications for resource use and
the environment. They also serve as building blocks for economic development. With a focus on
individuals and countries in the global south, this course is evidence based and primarily utilises the
concepts and tools of environmental economics and development economics. It aims to impart
knowledge and develop critical thinking about a number of selected topics concerned with the interface
between environment and development. Structured over 10 weeks, the course is divided into three
distinct parts. After introducing the course (week 1), Part I concentrates on two topics, which play a key
role in conditioning the supply of ecosystem services, institutions (week 2) and biodiversity (week 3).
Part II devotes a week each to food (week 4), water (week 5), and energy (week 7), with special
attention paid to issues of contemporary policy relevance, for example, food security, climate
adaptation, and the energy transition. Part III focuses on three selected topics, which cut across many of
the themes covered in the first two parts of the course: biofuels (week 8); forests (week 9); and, urban
(week 10). The course concludes with a closer examination of policy used to manage the some of the
trade-offs between environment and development studied earlier in the course (week 11).

Teaching

15 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT.

Formative coursework

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.

Indicative reading

There is no single textbook, which covers the content of the whole course. The following provides some
indicative reading:

R Lopez and M Toman, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability. Columbia University
Press, 2006.

E Barbier, Natural resources and economic development, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Public Management: A Strategic Approach

Professor Michael Barzelay NAB 3.19
Course content

The course develops the perspectives, knowledge, and intellectual skill required for practitioner
engagement and excellence in delivering public programs, developing strategy for organisations, and
leading a variety of organisational transitions in a public sector context. The principal reference
discipline is management, while the teaching case studies involve public sector programs and
organisations in many different national settings.

Organisational Change
Prof Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro

Course content

This course adopts a psychological framework to explore the content, process and outcomes of
organisational change. The aim of the course is to provide students with different psychological theories
to understand the process and consequences of organisational change and in doing so addresses the
following issues: type of organisational change, creating readiness for organisational change and
leading change, the change agent, strategies for change, resistance to change and evaluation of and
institutionalization of organisational change. Models and frameworks for analyzing and diagnosing
change; the role of the change agent, leading change from the top, bottom up change specific
interventions; strategies of change; a justice perspective on organisational change; understanding
recipients reactions to change; theory and methods of evaluation of organisational change and
reinforcing change interventions.

Globalization and Regional Development

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Prof Michael Storper

Availability

This course is available on the CEMS Exchange, MBA Exchange, MSc in African Development, MSc in
City Design and Social Science, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Environment and
Development, MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, MSc in Human Geography and
Urban Studies (Research) and MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po). This course is available
with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The number of students that can be accommodated is limited. If the course is over-subscribed, places
will be allocated at the Departments discretion and a waiting list may be created. For further details,
please contact your relevant Programme Coordinator.
Course content

The economic geography of globalization, and examination of some of the principal effects of
globalization on economic development of cities, regions and nations. Theories of regional economic
development, location, and trade are applied to the contemporary process known as "globalization", and
used to decipher this phenomenon and its effects on development, employment, and political
institutions. A number of major issues for regional and industrial policy are considered, including trade,
convergence/divergence, corporate power, knowledge and technology, governance, and inter-place
competition.