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2013/2014 KAN-CMO_DAPP Development aid – policies, possible impact and management
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| Development aid – policies, possible impact and management |
Course information |
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| Language | English |
| Exam ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Quarter |
| Course period | Second Quarter
Changes in course shedule may occur. Tuesday 09.50-13.20, week 44-50 Tuesday 09.50-14.15, week 51 |
| Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc/MSc i International Business and Politics,
MSc
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| Administrative contact: Maja Dueholm (md.ikl@cbs.dk) | |
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| Last updated on 10-04-2013 | |
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| The course will make it possible for
the participant to understand, analyse and reflect critically on
development policies, ideology and management. The course will
offer opportunities for students to analyse and understand both
theoretical, ideological and practical concerns related to
development cooperation. The course aims at providing an
understanding of international and national organisations and how
these operate.
The course will facilitate the students’ capacity to critically analyse policy papers and political decisions and their possible effect. |
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| Development aid and development
cooperation has been debated for years. The criticism from
researchers and others has been harsh. But political leaders and
ordinary people e.g. in Denmark have generally supported to give
development aid. The most radical critique maintains that
development aid is worse than nothing.
The critical and supportive ideas and research will be presented and discussed in the course based on international analyses and the lecturer’s own research and experience in the field from more than 20 developing countries and a number of middle income countries as government advisor and evaluator. Policies, ideology and agendas in development cooperation will be identified. The principles for development cooperation and development policies have changed fundamentally over time. And the development cooperation forms have changed as well. Several main phases of development policies and ideology can be identified and will be discussed. What were the reasons for these changes? What impact did the changes have? The main points of criticism include: Countries not receiving development aid have done better than the big receivers. Development aid is based on donors’ policies and economic interests. Transaction costs are high and management is poor. A dependency syndrome is developed etc. Donors are poorly organized and “are doing their own thing”. However, policy makers and international organizations point to major successes in reaching the millennium development goals and the Paris Declaration targets. Development aid has moved from infrastructure projects to human development, poverty alleviation and through the Washington and Post Washington consensus. These developments will be analysed in the course. How has the Danish development cooperation changed over time? And how has the European Union operated within the general principles of UN? How has effectiveness and efficiency developed? In times where the economy is growing in several developing countries and in middle income countries such as the BRIC countries reasons for this will be debated. With reference to this new situation the Chinese development policy should also be discussed. China’s activities in Africa and the difference between China and Western donors will be analysed. Apart from scholarly contributions various key policy documents will be used. This includes UN and EU declarations, the Paris Declaration and the follow-ups on this. The students are expected to write a report based on the topics covered in the course and pertinent parts of the course literature. |
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| - Lectures
- Plenary discussions - Students’ presentations of report drafts - Group discussions |
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| Expected literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden. Why the West’s Efforts
to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. New York:
Penguin Group, 2006.
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