Week 1--development

Development--some background
A model of social change (the infamous POET model)
Development--assumptions, meanings
The role of colonialism
What is structural adjustment lending?
Week 1 wrap-up
Lecture outline

Week 2--gender

Gender bias
Gender and poverty
Very brief history of the evolution of the movement
Systems of privilege
Week 2 wrap-up
Lecture outline

Week 3: Land and resources

From WID to GAD to WED
Farming systems
More on farming systems
Importance of property rights, land
Lecture outline

Week 4: Work and perspective

Moving to the cities . . . (urban migration)
How cities change things (an African example)
The informal economic sector
Factory life
Outline
Migration

Week 5: Power and the State

Power
Legitimate sources of power
The state

Week 6

Change
Identifying problems
Outline

Week 7

Planning
Sending in the experts
Outside the development universe

Week 8

Trafficking
Outline