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The Concept of Development

1. Amartya Sen ( 1998.)The concept of development , in Handbook of Development Economics, edited by Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig, vol 1.
2. Chapter 1 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
3. Streeten. , P. (2008). The meaning and measurement of development, in International Handbook of Development Economics, edited by Amitava              Krishna Dutt And Jaime Ros. 

     4.  UN Millennium Project (2005). Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Chapters 1-3.

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Comparative Economic Development

1. Chapter 2 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2. Spolaore, E. and Wacziarg, R. (2013). How deep are the roots of economic development, Journal of Economic Literature, 51(2): 325-369.
3. Collier, P. and Gunning, J.W. (1999) “Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13: 3-22.
4. Ocampo, J. A. (2004) “Latin America’s Growth and Equity Frustrations during Structural Reforms,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (2): 67-88. Chang,
5. H. J. (2003).  “The East Asian Development Experience,” in Chang, H.J. (ed) Rethinking Development Economics, London:  Anthem Press.
6. Sen, A. (2008) “Perspectives on the Economic Development of India and China” in Secondi,  The Development Economics Reader, London: Routledge.

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The measurement of Development

1. Alan B. Krueger & Daniel Kahneman & David Schkade & Norbert Schwarz & Arthur A. Stone, 2009. National Time Accounting: The  Currency of Life, NBER Chapters, in: Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and
    Well-Being, pages 9-86. (Free access) 

2. Mark McGillivray & Farhad Noorbakhsh, 2010. Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future,Chapters in: Human Well-being: Concept and Measurement, Palgrave Macmillan, Pages 113-134. (Free Access)
3. Veenhoven R., 2010. Subjective Measures of Well-being, Chapters in: Human Well-being: Concept and Measurement, Palgrave Macmillan,Pages 214-239. (Free Access)

4. Daniel Kahneman & Alan B. Krueger, 2006. "Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 20(1), pages 3-24, Winter.

5. Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz and Arthur Stone. 2004. "The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM): Instrument Documentation ", DRM Documentation.

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Poverty, Inequality and Development

1. Chapter 5 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2. Carvalho, S. & White, H., 1997. Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Poverty Measurement  and Analysis. The Practice and the Potential, Papers 366, World Bank - Technical Papers.
3. Howard White, 2005. Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, World development, 30(3): 511-522.
4. Sabina Alkire & Maria Emma Santos, 2010. Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries, Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present) HDRP-2010-11, Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
5. Alkire, Sabina & Foster, James, 2011. Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(7): 476-487.

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Population and Development

1. Chapter 6 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2. McElroy,Marjorie, and Dennis Tao Yang, (2000), “Carrots and sticks: Fertility effects of China’s population policies,” American Economic Review, 90: 389-392.

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Human Capital: Education and Health

1. Chapter 8 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2. http://hdr.undp.org/docs/NHDR-maps/HDRs_Education-Knowledge-and-Culture.pdf
3. http://hdr.undp.org/docs/NHDR-maps/HDRs_Public-Health.pdf

Urbanization and Rural-urban Migration

1. Chapter 7 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2.  Programme, U.N.D., 2009. Human Development Report: Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development. 2009.United Nations Development Programme.
3. World Bank. 2009. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. World Bank.

Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development

1. Chapter 9 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2. World Bank. 2007. World development report 2008: Agriculture for development. World Bank.

Environment and Development

1. Chapter 10 in Todaro, M. and Smith, S. C. (2012). Economic development, Addison-Wesley, 11th ed., Boston, MA.
2. Brown Lester, R., 2009. Plan B 4.0 Mobilizing to save civilization. Earth Policy Institute, Norton, USA.
3. UNDP, H., Human Development Report, Sustainability and equity: a better future for all.
4. Programme, U.N.D., 2007. Human Development report 2007/2008: Fighting climate change: human solidarity in a divided world. Palgrave Macmillan.