Required Reading
Aiken, W. and LaFollette, H. (1977) ‘Introduction’, in W. Aiken & H. LaFollette (eds.), World Hunger and Moral Obligation, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
Alesina, A. and Dollar, D. (2000) ‘Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?’, Journal of Economic Growth, 5: 33-63.
Banik, D. (2007) ‘Democracy and Starvation’, chapter 2 in Starvation and India’s Democracy, London & New York: Routledge.
Banik, D. (2009) 'Legal Empowerment as a Conceptual and Operational Tool in Fighting Poverty', Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 1(1): 117-131.
Banik, D. (2010) Poverty and Elusive Development, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
Banik, D. (2011) ‘Growth and Hunger in India’, Journal of Democracy 22(3): 90-104.
Banik, D. (2012) ‘China and Poverty Reduction in Africa/, Guanghua Yu (ed.), Rethinking Law and Development: The Chinese Experience, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2012)
Collier, P. (2007) The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done what it, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapter 1. [Available on Google Books]
FAO (2011): The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011. Rome: FAO.
Fukuda-Parr, S. (2010) “Reducing Inequality – The Missing MDG: A Content Review of PRSPs and Bilateral Donor Policy Statements”, IDS Bulletin, 41 (1): 26-35.
Fukuyama, F. (2008) “The Latin American Experience”, Journal of Democracy, 19 (4): 69-79
Gray, C. W. and Kaufmann, D. (1998) ‘Corruption and Development’, Finance & Development, No. 03.
Grindle, M. (2007) "Good Enough Governance Revisited", Development Policy Review, 25 (5): 553-574.
Hardin, G. (1974) ‘Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor’, Psychology Today, Sept. 1974.
Hulme, D. (2010) “Lessons from the Making of the MDGs: Human Development Meets Results-based Management in an Unfair World”, IDS Bulletin, 41 (1): 15-25.
IFPRI (2010) Global Hunger Index. The Challenge of Hunger, Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
Kanbur, R. (2001) ‘Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements’, World Development, 29 (6): 1083-1094.
Moyo, D. (2009) Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa, London: Allen Lane (chaps 1—3). [available on Google Books]
Narayan, D. (2000) ‘Poverty is Powerlessness and Voicelessness’, Finance & Development, December 2000: 18-21.
OECD (1999) DAC Scoping Study of Donor Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices. London: Overseas Development Institute. (Chapter 1).
OHCHR (2004) Human Rights and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework, Geneva: United Nations.
Pogge, T. (2005) ‘World Poverty and Human Rights’, Ethics and International Affairs, 19(1): 1-7.
Rodrik, D. (2000) ‘Growth versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate’, Finance & Development, December 2000: 8-9.
Sen, A. (1994) ‘Freedom and Needs: An Argument for the Primacy of Political Rights’, The New Republic 210: 31-38.
Sen, A. (1999) ‘Democracy as a Universal Value’, Journal of Democracy, 10(9): 3-17.
Sengupta, A. (2005) ‘Human Rights and Extreme Poverty’, Report of the Independent Expert on the Question of Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, Economic and Social Council, United Nations, E/CN.4/2005/49.
Singer, P. (1972) ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 1: 229-243.
UNDP (2000) Human Development Report 2000 (chap. 2).
UNRISD (2010) Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. (chaps 1, 5 & 11).
Wratten, E. (1995) ‘Conceptualising Urban Poverty’, Environment and Urbanization, 7: 11-36.
Total reading: approx. 850 p
All articles are available on the class (Fronter) website unless otherwise specified (log on to https://fronter.uio.no/ using your UiO username and password).
The only book you need to purchase is: Banik, Dan (2010) Poverty and Elusive Development, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press/ Universitetsforlaget.