Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Управление международным развитием
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Ворчик Андрей Денисович
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Development management is a subject which provides insights and understanding of the institutional drivers of economic and social development, as well as economic and social decomposition. It trains students to manage processes of change in the direction of increasing prosperity and freedom. Many students approach this course with the idea that development management is primarily about administering aid projects. Common misunderstandings are that countries develop as the direct result of international donor and NGO activities, and hence that by better administering the aid projects of such organisations, societies can become richer and more free. Such a view is rooted in a myth of charity which holds that people become more developed through the efforts and resources of others. This course will provide ample empirical and historical evidence to show that in fact societies develop as a result of deep changes in the way they organise key sets of rules by which they operate, such as the economy, government, and the system of justice. These sets of rules define their institutions, and hence development can be viewed as a process of transformation from less effective to more effective institutions. Outsiders, such as NGOs and international agencies, can play a crucial role in nudging societies towards such transformations, and advising national actors once change is under way. But the fundamental responsibility lies within developing societies. What you should take away from this course is an understanding of the role of institutions and organisations in developmental and anti-developmental processes, and strategies for fomenting the former and discouraging the latter.
Learning Objectives
- To explain institutions and organisations as theoretical concepts
- To analyse the development implications of different organisational forms
- To examine coordination in the increasingly complex institutional systems that characterise the most advanced countries
- To explore how characteristics of this complex interdependence are related to the persistence of high and low states of development.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Explain the role of incentives in political behaviour and economic performance
Course Contents
- Institutions, organisations and development management
- Political accountability and public action
- Democracy and decentralisation
- International aid and international governance
- Hierarchy, cooperation and incentives in private firms
- Real firms, small firms: microentrepreneurs and the informal sector
- Managing common resources: private solutions for collective action
- Geography, values, factor endowments, institutions
- Analytical narratives of development failure
- Analytical narratives of development success
- Towards a theory of development management
Assessment Elements
- Group presentation 215%
- Quiz 110%
- Group presentation 115%
- Written in-class essay20%
- Final Oral Exam30%
- Quiz 210%
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.3 * Final Oral Exam + 0.15 * Group presentation 1 + 0.15 * Group presentation 2 + 0.1 * Quiz 1 + 0.1 * Quiz 2 + 0.2 * Written in-class essay
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Brett, E. A. (2009). Reconstructing Development Theory : International Inequality, Institutional Reform and Social Emancipation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1522871
- Faguet, J.-P., & Sanchez, F. (2006). Decentralization’s effects on educational outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia. LSE Research Online Documents on Economics. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.ehl.lserod.2397
- Garrett Hardin. (1968). The tragedy of the commons. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.38C4A353
- Kochendörfer-Lucius, G., Pleskovic, B., World Bank, & Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbh. (2006). Equity and Development. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publications. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=142036
- North, D. C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=510978
- Olson, M. (1971). The Logic of Collective Action : Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=282683
- Stern, N. (2007). Stern Review on the economics of climate change. London: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.38551722X
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Cleaver, F. (2000). Moral Ecological Rationality, Institutions and the Management of Common Property Resources. Development & Change, 31(2), 361. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00158
- Easterly, W. (2001). The Elusive Quest for Growth : Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=62733
- Kähkönen, S., & Olson, M. (2000). A Not-so-dismal Science : A Broader View of Economies and Societies. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=273556
- Mookherjee, D., & Bardhan, P. K. (2006). Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries : A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=163977
- Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the Commons : The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge eText. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=510979
- Ostrom, E. (DE-588)121145107, (DE-627)081115563, (DE-576)162454449. (1993). Institutional incentives and sustainable development infrastructure policies in perspective Elinor Ostrom; Larry Schroeder; Susan Wynne. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.03896208X
- Rodrik, D. (1995). Why is there Multilateral Lending? CEPR Discussion Papers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.cpr.ceprdp.1207
- State power and social forces : domination and transformation in the Third World / ed. by Joel S. Migdal . (1994). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.042063949
- Williamson, O. E. (1995). Organization Theory : From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond (Vol. Expanded ed). New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=169764