Development Aid Politics

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

Classes are organized as seminar-based sessions. Teaching methods include participatory approaches where concepts are co-defined and the theortical-conceptual evolution of development aid politics is co-analysed, as well as the international development aid system currently in effect. Some sesions include work group in class focusing on the analysis of specific documents associated to a certain policy or case study.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome

Getting students acquainted with development aid politics.

Specific learning outcomes and skills

- To identify and understand the dynamics associated to the international systema of development aid

- To understand and critically analyse development aid policies of multilateral (universal and regional), bilateral and private actors.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. International Development Aid System

2. Actors (donors and beneficiaries)

3. Development Aid Policies and Instruments

4. Critiques: thematic (i.e. environmental), timing and results.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paula Duarte Lopes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
In-class participation: 20.0%
Test: 30.0%
Report on the subject of development aid politics : 50.0%

Bibliography

BROWNE, Stephen - Aid and influence : do donors help or hinder?. London : Earthscan, 2007. [BP 327 BRO]

CULPEPER, Roy - Titans or behemoths?. London : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1995. [BP 339.7 CUL]

DE HAAN, Arjan - How the aid industry works. An Introduction to International Development, Sterling: Kumarian Press, 2009. [disponível via NONIO]

DUFFIELD, Mark - Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security. Londres: Zed Books, 2001. [BP 327 DUF]

LANCASTER, Carol - Foreign aid : diplomacy, development, domestic politics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. [BP 330.3 LAN]

RIDDELL, Roger - Does Foreign Aid Really Work? New York: Oxford University, 2008. [BP 327 RID]

SOGGE, David - Give & Take. What’s the matter with foreign aid?, London: Zed Books, 2002. [327 SOG].