Academic Plan (Even Semester 2021-22)

Teacher Name: Dr Rashmi Chaudhary

Paper name: Development Economics - II

Course & Year : B.A (Hons) VIth Semester
Paper shared with: None

Unit to be taken Month wise Tests/Assignments/

schedule to be Revision/Presentati
followed ons etc
Unit- 1 Demography & Development January Internal
i) Population Growth and Week 1 Assessment
Economic Development, Debraj 25 marks
Ray, DE, Chapter 9.

ii) Debraj Ray, DE, Chapter 10: The January

Lewis Model and Harris – Todaro Model Week 2 & 3 3 Tests
Unit – 2 Land, Labour and Credit January 1st test: 15-02-2022
Markets Week 4,
Debraj Ray,DE, Chapter 11
Tentative dates:
Debraj Ray,DE, Chapter 12 February 2nd test: 23-03-2022
Week 1 3rd test: 06-04-2022
Debraj Ray,DE, Chapter 13 February
Week 2
Debraj Ray,DE, Chapter 14 February
Week 3

Unit – 3 Individuals, Communities and February

Collective Outcomes Week 4
Elinor Ostrom, Chapter 1
Unit – 4 Environment and Sustainable March
Development Week 1
i) Partha Dasgupta, AVSI, Chpater 7
ii) Gerald Mier, Leading Issues in March
Economic Development Chapter 7 & 10 Week 3 Mid Sem Break: 13th
-20th March,2022
iii) Charles D Kolstad, Environmental March
Economics Week 4
Unit – 5 Globalization April
i)Abhijeet Banerjee,Understanding Week 1
Poverty, Chpaters 6 & 7.
ii)Dani Rodrik, Globalization Paradox, April
Chapter 4 Week 2

Iii)Raghuram Rajan, Fault lines… April

Introduction to the Book Week 3 Revision:
April
Week 4

References

1. Debraj Ray, Development Economics, (DE), Princeton University Press.

1998

2. Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction, (AVSI), Oxford

University Press, 2007

3. Abhijit Banerjee, Roland Benabou and Dilip Mukherjee (eds),

Understanding Poverty(UP), Oxford University Press, 2013.

4. Gerald M. Mier, James E Rauch, Leading Issues in Economic Development,

Oxford University Press, 2007

5. Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for

Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

6. Charles D. Kolstad, Intermediate Environmental Economics, Oxford

University Press, 2012
7. Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States and
Democrcay Can’t Coexist, Oxford University Press, 2011

8.Raghuram Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the
World Economy, 2010, Introduction to the book.