Annual Report

Development Studies Committee 2004-2005

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Development Studies Committee Annual report for 2004-2005

1. Introduction ...............................................................................................................................................2 2. Review of 2004-2005 ..................................................................................................................................2 3. Review of the MPhil in Development Studies course .............................................................................4 4. Funding received .......................................................................................................................................5 5. Publications ................................................................................................................................................5 6. Visiting lecturers .......................................................................................................................................7 7. Seminars .....................................................................................................................................................9 8. Visiting scholars ........................................................................................................................................9 9. Development Studies Library ..................................................................................................................9 Appendix A: Membership of Development Studies Committee ................................................................11 Appendix B: Student data for 2004-2005 .....................................................................................................12 Number of applications for October 2004 ............................................................................................12 Number of offers made ...........................................................................................................................12 Number of arrivals ..................................................................................................................................12 Areas of origin and gender breakdown .................................................................................................12 Academic backgrounds ...........................................................................................................................12 Sources of funding ...................................................................................................................................13 Examination choices ...............................................................................................................................13 Dissertation titles .....................................................................................................................................14

2 1. Introduction Development Studies Committee is the managing committee for the MPhil in Development Studies, and the body from which the unit takes its name. The MPhil in Development Studies is a strongly The key disciplines are interdisciplinary taught MPhil organised on a "hub-and-spokes" basis.

development economics, institutional theory, sociology, political science, anthropology, management, and law. The hub is constituted by the three core courses (Development Economics, Institutions and Development, and Sociology and Politics of Development), which each provide a strong theoretical basis for the understanding of interdisciplinary issues. The spokes are created largely by sharing papers with cognate MPhils (currently the MPhils in Economics, Land Economy Option B, Social Anthropological Analysis, Management Studies, and Social and Economic History) to provide specialised knowledge of individual disciplines. Students take four papers concurrently, of which at least two must be core papers. One option paper may be replaced by a 12,000-word dissertation. 2. Review of 2004-2005 At the beginning of the academic year we were delighted to welcome back Dr Ha-Joon Chang from his two-year leave of absence. In 2005 Dr Chang was awarded the Tufts University Leontief Prize. Named in honour of the 1973 Nobel prizewinner Wassily Leontief, the Leontief Prize acknowledges the work of economists who combine theoretical and empirical research to promote a more comprehensive understanding of social and environmental processes. Also at the beginning of the year, Professor Barry Rider joined us as the coordinator of a new option paper, Justice and Development. Professor Rider's many roles include Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, Professor Honorarius at the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State, Fellow of Jesus College since 1976, Fellow Commoner of Jesus College since 2000, and, in 2005, Warden of the Worshipful Company of Patternmakers. Justice and Development proved to be extremely popular option paper: one-third of the students selected it as an examination choice. We were fortunate, too, to have the services of Dr Maria Teresa Ruiz-Tagle of the Department of Land Economy, and Dr Kaveri Gill of the Centre of South Asia Studies, who between them gave all the lectures for Paper 2, Institutions and Development, during Dr Fennell's period of sabbatical leave in Michaelmas term. Later in the year we welcomed Mrs Lucy Murray, who joined us as a part-time member of the assistant staff team, and Mrs Diana Kazemi, who joined us as the part-time administrator for the CAPORDE workshop which is organised by Dr Chang. In January Adrian Bateman, our computer officer since September 2000, left us to move to Bath, and we were fortunate to secure the services of Steve Kimberley in his stead. We were also delighted to host Dr Huaichuan Rui while she completed her joint research project with Professor Peter Nolan on 'The impact on the Chinese coal industry of the global value chain cascade effect'.

3 During the Easter vacation we held our fifth annual joint workshop with Professor Gianni Vaggi and graduate students from the European School of Advanced Studies in Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia. The workshop alternates between Pavia and Cambridge, and this year it was Pavia's turn to act as host. Twentythree students plus Dr Fennell (and family) left Development Studies by coach at 4 o'clock in the morning to catch the flight from Stansted to Milan Malpensa. They were joined in Pavia by Dr Edmunds and her family. The workshop plenary lecture, with the title 'Globalisation: does it work for developing countries?', was given by Professor Amit Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pavia. The workshop lasted for a day and a half, and the students then had 24 hours to experience Italy as tourists before returning to the UK. Rumour has it that some of them managed to get as far as Genoa in the time available, although most were content to explore Pavia or Milan. Sadly, this will be our last joint workshop with the University of Pavia the cost of funding the return leg in Cambridge is now prohibitive. In July Development Studies Committee hosted the fifth annual CAPORDE workshop (Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics) which is organised by Dr Chang with funding from the Ford Foundation, and which took place, for the second year running, in Queens' College. The workshop brings toward 25 to 30 young academics from developing countries, including transition economies, and provides them with a golden opportunity to gain exposure to frontier research on key issues in development economics. This year's delegates came from Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Tunisia), Europe (Estonia, Russia), the Far East (China, Korea, Vietnam), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay), South Asia (India, Pakistan), and North America (Canada). The lecturers included Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge), Andrea Cornia (Firenze), Michael Ellman (Amsterdam), Shailaja Fennell (Cambridge), Ben Fine (SOAS), J. Galbraith (Texas), Ilene Grabel (Denver), Duncan Green (Oxfam), Jomo, S.K. (Assistant-Secretary General, UN), Deepak Nayaar (Delhi), Peter Nolan (Cambridge), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Under-Secretary General, UN), Gabriel Palma (Cambridge), Christos Pitelis (Cambridge), Erik Reinert (The Other Canon Foundation), John Sender (SOAS), Ajit Singh, (Cambridge), Howard Stein (Michigan), Lance Taylor (New School), John Toye (Oxford), and Bhaskar Vira (Cambridge). Below is a review of the MPhil in Development Studies by a member of the 2004-2005 student cohort.

4 Review of the MPhil in Development Studies course Being part of the MPhil programme in Development Studies has been a remarkable experience. The structure of the programme is quite unique, in that it is genuinely multi-disciplinary (as any academic programme covering development ought to be). In what other programme can you actually enrol in courses in faculties as diverse as business and anthropology? Yet, it also provides students with requisite special skills and training, which many programmes of a multidisciplinary nature fail to accomplish, in particular areas of development that are of interest. The dual interests of general multidisciplinary perspectives and specialised technical knowledge are achieved through various option papers and a set of three core papers, which complement each other. For example: the core option paper, Development Economics, covers the history of economic thought as it relates to development. The option paper, Philosophical Issues in Economics, provides a deeper understanding of the philosophical issues underpinning the historic development of economic thought; thereby complementing the material covered in the core paper. The bottom line is that it is up to you, as a student, to make a choice of which subjects you are interested in, and what combination of core/option papers enable you to pursue those interests most effectively. Another noteworthy feature of the programme is the diverse student body it attracts our class, which had a strength of 36 students, had people from at least 15 countries, covering four continents. This diversity helps broaden one's horizons (yes, I realise this phrase has now become clich, but in this case it's true), and relate to global problems via firsthand local accounts. The goal of a liberal education studia humanitatis is, quite literally, accomplished here. And the small class size helps forge friendships that I'll treasure for many years to come. The tense moments right before essays are due, the pub visits that follow, the joys of Pavia and many other shared experiences are memories enjoyed with friends who will never be forgotten. Of course, there are a couple of shortcomings also! It'd be nice to have a coffee machine that had better coffee! And the computer room would benefit from more computers and with access to non-Cambridge email accounts. Also, a formal research methods course would be nice to have in the optional papers. On the whole, the staff and faculty at Development Studies have made sure that their MPhil programme provides students with appropriate skills and a great Cambridge experience. Mumukshu Patel, July 2005

5 3. Funding received in 2004-2005 In addition to the core funding provided by the University of Cambridge, Development Studies Committee gratefully acknowledges the following: Cambridge University Press: 1300 to purchase library books Dr Paul Aiello: 14,000 to support a Research Fellow (Dr Huaichuan Rui) Ford Foundation: 125,536.80 to support the international summer workshop CAPORDE 2005 (Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics), which is organised by Dr Chang. Smuts Memorial Fund: 6000 to support the coordination and teaching of Paper 3, Sociology and Politics of Development. Ford Foundation: USD 240,000 to support the fifth CAPORDE workshop (Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics) 4. Publications in 2004-2005 Chang, Dr Ha-Joon Books Reclaiming development: an alternative economic policy manual, Zed Press, 2004 (with Ilene Grabel): Turkish translation published by Imge Publishing House, Ankara, Turkey in 2005; Spanish and Indonesian translations are forthcoming. Gae-hyuck ui dut (The reform trap), Bookie, Seoul, 2004 (collection of essays in Korean). Journal articles 'Late marketisation versus late industrialisation in East Asia' (with Keun Lee and Justin Y. Lin), AsiaPacific Economic Literature, 2005. 'Reclaiming development from the Washington consensus' (with Ilene Grabel), Journal of PostKeynesian Economics 27(2), 2004-5. 'Regulation of foreign investment in historical perspective', European Journal of Development Research, 16(3), 2004. Book chapters 'What is wrong with the "official history of capitalism" - with special reference to the debates on globalisation and economic development', in E. Fullbrook (ed.), A guide to what's wrong with economics, Anthem Press, 2004. 'An alternative perspective on government policy towards the Chaebol in Korea: industrial policy, financial regulations, and political democracy' (with Hong-Jae Park), in S-H. Jwa & I. Lee (eds),

6 Competition and corporate governance in Korea: reforming and restructuring the Chaebol, Edward Elgar, 2004. 'The role of social policy in economic development: some theoretical reflections and lessons from East Asia', in T. Mkandawire (ed.), Social policy in a development context, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 'The role of institutions in economic change' (with Peter Evans), in G. Dymski & S. Da Paula (eds), Reimagining growth, Zed Press, 2005. 'Kicking away the ladder: "good policies" and "good institutions" in historical perspective', in K. Gallagher (ed.), Putting development first: the importance of policy space in the WTO and IFIs, Zed Press, 2005. Edmunds, Dr June 'Generations and social closure' (with B.S. Turner), in Mackert, J., ed., The theory of social closure, Leske and Budrich, 2004. 'Redefining Britannia: the role of "marginal" generations in reshaping British national consciousness', in Phillips, R. and Brocklehurst, H., eds, History, nationhood and the question of Britain, Macmillan/Palgrave, 2004. 'Generational closure and political change in post-revolutionary Eastern Europe' (American Sociological Association, 2005. 'Global generations: social change in the twentieth century' (with B.S. Turner), British Journal of Sociology (2005 in press) Reprint of 'The distaste of taste: Bourdieu, cultural capital and the Australian postwar elite' (with B.S. Turner), in Margaret Hogg, ed., Consumer behaviour, Sage Publications, 2005. Azza Karam, ed., Transnational political Islam, religion, ideology and power, London and Sterling: Virginia, Ethnic and Racial Studies (book review), 2004. Fennell, Dr Shaila Rules, rubrics and riches: the relationship between legal reform, institutional change and international development, Cavendish, forthcoming 'The ethics of population control', in D. Clark, ed., Elgar Companion to Development Economics, forthcoming. Nolan, Professor Peter Transforming China: globalization, transition and development, Anthem.

7 Rider, Professor Barry Editorial comments as General Editor in Amicus Curiae, The Company Lawyer, The Journal of Financial Crime, The Journal of Money Laundering Control. 'Integrity', in Insurance, April 2005. Revision of Chapter 12 in F. Gore-Browne, Gore-Browne on companies, Jordans Ltd. 'The war on terror and crime and the offshore centres', in D. Masciandaro, ed., Global financial crime, Ashgate, 2004. Published papers on the financial war on terrorism and the control of money laundering at conferences organised by the Singapore Bankers Association; the Bahamas Banking Association; The International Chamber of Commerce; The Canadian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the University of the Free State. 5. Visiting lecturers 8 October 13 October 20 October 27 October 1 November 2 November 3 November Ajit Singh, Faculty of Economics: 'Sixty years of economic development' (Paper 1) Maria Teresa Ruiz-Tagle, Department of Land Economy: 'Institutions and institutional analysis' (Paper 2) Maria Teresa Ruiz-Tagle: 'Institutions as responses to market failure' (Paper 2) Maria Teresa Ruiz-Tagle: 'Property rights, transaction costs and institutions' (Paper 2) Kaveri Gill, Centre of South Asian Studies, 'An institutionalised view of economic exchange' (Paper 2) Johan Henning, Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, South Africa: 'The creation of law from a comparative perspective' (Paper 30) Kaveri Gill: 'The New Institutional Economics perspective on economic exchange' (Paper 2) and II' (Paper 1) 8 November 9 November 10 November 16 November 23 November 24 November 29 November Kaveri Gill: 'The embeddedness view of economic exchange' (Paper 2) Graham Ritchie, Anglia Polytechnic University and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London: 'Protection of the individual and the family' (Paper 30) Kaveri Gill: 'The political economy view of economic exchange' (Paper 2) Fred Yeager, St Louis Business School, USA: 'Protection of other interests and values' (Paper 30) Fred Yeager, St Louis Business School, USA: 'Stability of the financial system' (Paper 30) Kaveri Gill: 'The problem of collective action' (Paper 2) Peter Dickens, Fitzwilliam College: 'Society and nature: sociological perspectives' (Paper 3) 5 and 12 November Geoff Harcourt, Faculty of Economics: 'Theories of growth and income distribution I

8 30 November 20 January 27 January 4 February 8 February 11 February 14 February 15 February 17 February 18 February 21 February 22 February 24 February 25 February Chizu Nakajima, Cass Business School, City University, and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London: 'International financial regulation' (Paper 30) Huaichuan Rui, Judge Business School: 'Globalisation, big business and China' (Paper 22) Luiz Kormann, Judge Business School: 'Globalisation, big business and Brazil' (Paper 22) Gabriel Palma, Faculty of Economics: 'The Latin American developmental experience' (Paper 1) Zhang, Jin, Judge Business School: 'Globalisation and the global value chain' (Paper 22) Philip Arestis, Department of Land Economy, 'Finance and economic development' (Paper 1) Alan Shipman, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: 'Globalisation and anti-globalisation' (Paper 3) Denis Osborn, Former High Commissioner and Senior Official, Overseas Development Agency: 'The control of corruption' (Paper 30) Sanjay Peters, Universitat Ramon Lull, Barcelona: 'Globalisation, big business and India' (Paper 22) Gabriel Palma, Faculty of Economics, 'Recent financial crises in developing countries' (Paper 1) Alan Shipman, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: 'Globalisation, geopolitics and security' (Paper 3) Stefan Cassella, US Department of Justice: 'Organised crime, series crime, and criminal subversion' (Paper 30) Anthony Miller, UNCTAD: 'Globalisation and socially responsible investment' (Paper 22) Howard Stein, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 'African economic development: legacies and challenges' (Paper 1) 28 February 4 March 8 March 29 April 6 May 20 May Alan Shipman, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: 'Democracy and development: origins and intentions' (Paper 3) Gabriel Palma, Faculty of Economics, 'Recent financial crises in developing countries' (Paper 1) Claudio Santibanez, Ministry of Planning, Government of Chile: 'Poverty, exclusion and institutional analysis' (Paper 2) Ajit Singh, Faculty of Economics, 'Corporate governance and competition policy in developing countries' (Paper 1) Ajit Singh, Faculty of Economics, 'Financial liberalisation, stock market, and development' (Paper 1) Gabriel Palma, Faculty of Economics, 'Income distribution and development' (Paper 1)

9 6. Seminars 29 October 9 November 15 November 22 November 21 February Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago: ' Religion and secularism'. Steve Frenkel, University of New South Wales: 'Codes of labour practice: collaboration vs compliance'. Ariel Buira, Director, G-24, former Executive Director and International Director of the IMF: 'The IMF: unfulfilled potential'. Matthew McCartney, School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London: 'Carts before horses: policy reform, liberalisation and economic growth in India, 1980 to 2004'. Mariano Laplane, Institute of Economics, University of Campinas, Brazil: 'The contribution of foreign direct investment to growth and development in Brazil: frustrated expectations during the Nineties'. 24 February 24 February Alisher Faizullaev, Centre for Political Studies, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent: 'Conventional international relations and psycho-politics of Central Asia'. Howard Stein, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan: 'New Institutional Economics and the World Bank Agenda: Critical Reflections'. 3 March 8 March Robert Wade, London School of Economics: 'Making globalisation work better'. David Clark and David Hulme, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, 'Integrating time into the conceptualisation, measurement and analysis of poverty'. 25 May Medhi Shafaeddin, UNCTAD, 'Trade liberalisation in developing countries: structural change or de-industrialisation?' 7. Visiting scholars Clark, David, Global Poverty Research Group (GPRG) and Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester; Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), University of Cape Town, South Africa (March 2004 to February 2005) Tsuji, Miyo, Faculty of Commerce, Ryutsu Kagaku University, Japan (August 2004 to August 2005) Zhang, Qing, PetroChina, PR China (March to December 2004)

8. Development Studies Library Development Studies Library opened in 2001. It is housed in Mill Lane Library, along with the libraries for the Department of Land Economy, the Centre of International Studies, and the Centre of Latin American Studies. Because the MPhil in Development Studies is a taught course, we began by focusing

10 on acquiring multiple (up to five) copies of core paper reading list texts. This year, thanks to the credit allocation of 1300 from Cambridge University Press, Galloway and Porter's stunning half-price book sale, Cambridge University Press's damaged stock book sale, and the summer sale offerings from the invaluable Zed Press, we managed to broaden the collection significantly by acquiring single copies of important new texts which are not included in core paper reading lists. The library currently holds 671 titles (1363 volumes), of which 227 titles (464 volumes) were added in 2004-2005.

11 Appendix A: Membership of Development Studies Committee (Chair, Professor Peter Nolan) Chair of the Faculty Board of Economics and Politics Professor Andrew Harvey Head of the Department of Social Anthropology Professor Caroline Humphry Head of the Department of Land Economy Dr Ian Hodge Appointed by the Faculty Board of Economics and Politics Dr Gabriel Palma Appointed by the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology Dr David Sneath Appointed by the Board of Land Economy Dr John McCombie Appointed by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Dr Georgina Born Appointed by the General Board Professor Martin J Daunton, Faculty of History Dr Bhaskar Vira, Department of Geography University Lecturers in Development Studies Dr Shaila Fennell, Department of Land Economy and Jesus College Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Faculty of Economics and Politics Coopted by Development Studies Committee Professor Christopher Colclough, Faculty of Education Professor Peter Nolan, Judge Institute of Management (Chair) Professor Megan Vaughan, Faculty of History

12 Appendix B: Student data for 2004-2005 Number of applications for October 2004: 425 Number of offers made: 85 Number of arrivals: 34 plus one transfer from the MPhil in Latin American Studies and one transfer from the MPhil in Computer Speech, to make a total of 36 students. Area of origin and gender breakdown Area of origin Africa Australasia European Union Europe outside the EU Middle East Far East North America Latin America Central Asia South Asia UK West Indies Total Male 2 5 1 1 2 3 2 16 Female 1 3 7 2 1 2 4 20 Total 2 6 4 8 4 1 5 6 36

Academic backgrounds Anthropology, Computer Science, Economic Geography, Economics, English and Mathematics, European Politics, German Philology, History, International Development, International Economics and Trade, International Studies, Labour Economics, Language and Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Management, Music, Nepali and the History of Art and Archaeology, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Finance, Social Sciences, Social work, and Sociology.

13 Sources of funding

Cambridge Trusts

Chevening College

Other Scholarship

Mixed Cambridge Trust/ Private

Mixed Other Scholarship/ Private

Private

Employer

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Examination choices (36 students)

Core papers Paper 1, Development economics Paper 2, Institutions and development Paper 3, Sociology and politics of development Options: full papers Paper 10, Quantitative methods in economics and finance Paper 11, Topics in industrial and financial economics Paper 13, Financial organisation and economic growth Paper 14, Philosophical issues in economics Paper 18, Social anthropology and development Paper 22, Globalisation, big business & developing countries Paper 26, Microeconomics (MPhil in Economics) Paper 28, Macroeconomics (MPhil in Economics) Paper 30, Justice and development Dissertation Options: half papers Paper 16(i), National planning and economic policy Paper 16(ii), Land use change and rural development Paper 23(i), Issues in public policy and regeneration I Paper 23(ii), Issues in public policy and regeneration II 4 4 3 3 3 5 4 5 5 17 1 1 12 10 36 11 27

14 Dissertation titles '"Mexican workers, peasants, and even the middle classes...have yet to see any sustained benefits from North American economic integration" (Otero 2004). Discuss in relation to the Mexican agricultural industry'. 'Human Development Index: concept, measures and alternatives'. 'The impact of (INGOs) on the socio-economic development of women in the "Third World": the case of Nepal'. 'Ceci n'est pas une fin: reconsidering the role of postmodernism in development, geography, and development geography'. 'Small and medium enterprise development in Sichuan and policy implications'. 'From the oceanic circle to the pyramid: the evolution of IGO mandates in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo'. 'The role of the global economy in the evolution of education policy: the case of Thailand'. 'Science, politics, and tobacco in the developing world'. 'The implications of EU enlargement for transition economies, with particular reference to the protection of human rights for the vulnerable in Romania'. 'Epilepsy: the challenge for development'.