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Supplementary Digital Study Packs for Róbinson Rojas teaching
(Development Planning Unit (UCL), and  Education for Sustainability Programme (LSBU)):

- Planning for Development
- Economics of Urbanization
- Local and Global with a focus on NGO education
- Theories and Perspectives on Environment and Development


From Social Watch - 2004
Ghana - The frightening picture behind the pin-up

From Social Watch - 2006
Ghana - Growing dependence on inadequate aid

From Social Watch - 2007
Ghana - No hope for the poor

From Social Watch - 2008
Ghana - Free markets and the threat to basic food rights

From Social Watch - 2009
Ghana - Inequality: the biggest challenge

From Social Watch - 2010
Ghana - MDGs remain elusive

Trades Union Congress (Ghana) - 2004
Incomes in Ghana - Policy Discussion Paper

From The World Bank - 2004
Ghanaian Labor Market - Key Trends and Major Policy Issues - 2004

Dr. Róbinson Rojas - 2011
The political economy of Ghana's development - brief notes

 
From Monthly Review - May 2004
Ideology and Economic Development
Michael A. Lebowitz
Economic theory is not neutral, and the results when it is applied owe much to the implicit and explicit assumptions embedded in a particular theory. That such assumptions reflect specific ideologies is most obvious in the case of the neoclassical economics that underlies neoliberal economic policies.

From the International Monetary Fund
World Economic Outlook Databases

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual WEO exercise, which begins in January and June of each year and results in the April and September WEO publication. Selected series from the publication are available in a database format.
See also, the World Economic Outlook Reports.


From United Nations
Links to official statistical organizations active in the UNECE region

United Nations regional commissions:
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)


World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).    

Report: The Persistent Problem--Inequality, Difference, and the Challenge of Development
Released on July 10, 2008

Global levels of inequality today are at extremely high levels even as conditions for alleviating deprivation are more favorable than ever before.  Inequities in the international system and within developing countries threaten to halt progress toward greater democratization and economic development for the poorest countries in the world.
The report by the Task Force on Difference, Inequality, and Development of the American Political Science Association, entitled The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference, and the Challenge of Development, highlights how these problems threaten efforts to alleviate deprivation such as the Millennium Development Goals.  It shows that in an increasingly interdependent world, international institutions should be made more accountable to poor countries if they are to maintain their legitimacy and effectiveness.

For democracy and capitalism to fulfill their promise of ending deprivation in developing countries, they must be based on institutions that reflect their distinctive histories and cultures. Deepening democratic processes in developing countries is essential for establishing political and economic institutions to equitably reflect local experiences. Effective change will be interactive, not imposed.

 
Measuring Labor's Share - By Alan B. Krueger, 1999
Getting Income Shares Right - By Douglas Gollin, 2002
Re-measuring Labor's Share - By Andrew T. Young and Hernando Zuleta, 2008
Getting income shares right: a panel data investigation for OECD countries - By Aamer S. Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader, 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

New Public Management. A market-friendly type of public administration? A critique Seminar topic.-Economic, social and political development require a new type of administration and planning”. Discuss

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Equity and Development. The struggle for reducing poverty. PRSPs and SWAPs.
Give an analytical overview of the main causes for poverty in developing societies


Background readings on effects of the economic recession 2008-2009:

A. Fosu and W. Naudé, 2009, The Global Economic Crisis. Towards Syndrome-Free Recovery for Africa , UNU-WIDER, 2009, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/dp2009-03africa.pdf

African Center for Gender and Social Development, 2009, African Perspectives of the global economic and financial crisis, including the impact on health, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/ecanotes09.pdf

Impact of the crisis on African economies - sustaining growth and poverty reduction, Committee of African Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, 2009, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/africacrisis09.pdf

Prof. Chukwuma C. Soludo, CFR, Governor Central Bank of Nigeria , 2009, Global financial and economic crisis: how vulnerable is Nigeria ?, CBN, 2009, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/nigeria09.pdf"

Adamu, A., 2008,The effects of global financial crisis on Nigerian economy, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/onnigeria09.pdf

IDB, 2009, Policy Trade-offs for Unprecedented Times: Confronting the Global Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean , IDB, 2009, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/policylam09.pdf

UN, 2009, Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, UN, 2009, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/docunconfjun09.pdf

IMF, 2009, Contractionary Forces Receding But Weak Recovery Ahead, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/imfweoupjul09.pdf

CGAP, 2009, Focus Note: The Global Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Microfinance, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/microfinance09.pdf

UNCTAD, 2009, At inaugural public symposium. "Voiceless" have strong words for global financial crisis. Representatives of civil society, private sector tell UNCTAD and officials of other agencies that global turmoil is taking a painful toll, available at www.rrojasdatabank.info/crisisdb/UNCTADpress180509.pdf

Jenkins, R. (1992), “Theoretical Perspectives”, in Hewitt, T., Johnson, H. and Wield, D., Industrialization and Development ( Oxford University Press), Chapter 5, pp. 128 – 166.

 

 

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