Week 9 Day 1 Lecture Outline = Open Conversation on
How Units 1 & 2 Can Help Us Understand Africa’s Poor Development Performance
- Unit III’s Paradox: “Rich Continent, Poor People”
Week 9 Day 2
What is development?
- a process (transformation + provision)
- a universal goal (but haves and have nots; living standards vs. abject poverty)
- a moral imperative (human rights)
- a “business” (there is money in poverty)
- the quest for growth, equity and sustainability (sustainable development)
2. Measures of development
- Economic indicators
- Social indicators
- Environmental indicators
- Neglected indicators
3. Africa’s (Non-)Development: Why?
- Geography
- History
- Post-colonial dirigisme
- Marginalization
and also…
Week 9 Reading Guide
Pierre Englebert (2000)
- How does Englebert explain variations in development performance across SSA? Specifically, how does he connect the political and economic realm to explain such variations?
- What is “vertical legitimacy”? What is “horizontal legitimacy”? How do they come about (or fail to come about)?
- Why does it matter to understand these concepts?
- What cases does Englebert examine to marshal his argument?
- Are you persuaded by Englebert’s argument?