Development Policy and Politics (2 º Sem 2019/2020)

The curricular unit is divided in three modules:
The first module will offer an conceptual and methodological framework to under-stand how a political economy analysis is more suitable to explain poor or good development performance through an analytical and reflexive debate on the interplay between structures, institutions and agency;
MODULE 1: Understanding Politics in Development
Week 1: From Political Economy Analysis to Political Analysis
Week 2:Structure and Institutions
Week 3: History and Path Dependence
Week 4: Agency Behaviour and Institutional Change

MODULE 2: International Development Cooperation from the End of World War II to the present days
Week 5: Bipolar World and International Development Cooperation, 1949-1989: Between West and East and Capitalism and Socialism
Week 6: The changing paradigm in Inter-national Development Cooperation, 1989-2000: Beyond the OECD-DAC leader-ship
Week 7: From Development Assistance to Development Cooperation: New Actors, Instruments and Geographies of Poverty
Week 8: The experience of Portuguese cooperation
Week 9: Space and scales in development policies
Finally, the third module will debate a particular case study of exogenously-imposed development policy choices and their impact in conditioning governance in developing countries, i.e., the so-called Washington Consensus.
MODULE 3: Conditionalities in Devel-opment Policies
Week 10: The emergence of Washington Consensus: Stabilization and Structural Adjustment Policies
Week 11: Expanded Washington Consensus: Caring for Social Issues and Good Governance
Week 12: Post-Washington Consensus: Forgiving Debt (HIPC) and Poverty Fighting (PRSP)
Week 13: Beyond Washington Consensus? Current Issues in Development Policies