Semester	Spring Semester, 2020
Department	International Doctor Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Doctor Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year International Doctor Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Third Year
Course Name	Development Aid and Asia Pacific Cooperation
Instructor
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Elective
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

週次 Week	課程主題 Topic	課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment	教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework	學習投入時間Student workload expectation
週次 Week	課程主題 Topic	課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment	教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework	課堂講授 In-class Hours	課程前後 Outside- of-class Hours
1	introduction	Course administration	Course administration	3	2
2	Conceptual background	*McGillivray 2008; McKay 2008; Rostow 2008; Frank 2008	Lecture and discussion	3	7
3	Ethical foundation:	*Riddell 1987, chs 3-6; Nozick 2013; Sen 2013; Singer 2013	Lecture and discussion	3	7
4	Evolution of DA and strategies	*Riddell 1987, ch 9; Ferreira and Keely 2000; Fukuda-Parr 2002	Lecture and discussion	3	7
5	Actors and Institutions of DA I: ODA, Multilateral Aid	*Hyden and Mukandala 1999; Lundsgaarde 2013 ch 1,2; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014, ch.42	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
6	Actors and Institutions of DA II: NGOs, IOs	*Rooy and Robinson 1998; Smillie 2000; Lindenberg and Bryant 2001, ch.1	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
7	Emergency relief and humanitarian assistance	* Lindenberg and Bryant 2001, ch.3; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014, chs.37,39	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
8	Gender empowerment and Poverty reduction	*Hunt 2008; Hulme 2012; UN Millennium 2013; World Bank 2013; Nussbaum 2013; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014, chs.47,48	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
9	Mid-term review			3	3
10	Ecological development and Aid	*UNEP 2013; Kingsbury 2008; Weiss and Wilkinson 2014, chs 43,45,46	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
11	Implementation and Impact Evaluation	*Ghalib 2012; Priyadarshee et al 2012; The Reality of Aid Management Committee	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
12	Countries practices I: US, Canada and Japan	*Morrison 2000; Pratt 2000; Potter 1996; Arase 2005; The Reality of Aid Management Committee	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
13	Countries and region Practices II: Taiwan, Korea, China, India and SEA	*Woods 2008; State Council 2011/14; Shimomura & Ohashi 2013; Kim & Kim 2014; Saravannamuttu 1998; Pellini & Ayres 2012; Quibria & Islam 2015	Lecture, reading presentations and discussion	3	7
14	University Day	No Class
15	Student project Presentations I	Student project Presentations I	Student project Presentations I	3	12
16	Student project Presentations II	Student project Presentations II	Student project Presentations II	3	12
17	Student project Presentations III	Student project Presentations III	Student project Presentations III	3	12
18	Student project Presentations IV	Student project Presentations IV	Student project Presentations IV	3	12

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

TBA

Requirement/Grading

1. In-class participations: 25%

2. 2 oral presentations and 2 summary/critical reports: 25% (total) (MA students: 1 each)

3. Final paper (written paper15-20 pages 40%+outline presentation 10%): 50% (total)

Textbook & Reference

-R.C. Riddell, 1987 Foreign Aid Reconsidered (Johns Hopkins UP,)

-M.G.Quibria and A. Islam, “The Case Study of Aid Effectiveness in Bangladesh: Development with Governance Challenges” (April 4, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2589930

- T.G. Weiss and R. Wilkinson eds. 2014 International Organization and Global Governance. (Routledge)

-G. Hyden and R. Mukandala 1999 “Studying Foreign Aid Organizations: Theory and Concept” in Hyden and Mukandala eds. Agencies in Foreign Aid (Macmillan Press)

-Erik Lundsgaarde 2013 The Domestic Politics of Foreign Aid (Routledge)

-D. Hulme 2012“A Short History of the Grameen Bank: from Subsidized Microcredit to Market-based Microfinance” in F. Hossain et al eds, Microcredit and International Development (Routledge)

-A. Pellini and D. Ayres 2012 “Giving People Choice: the Role of Traditional Religious Association in Providing Credit to the Rural Population in Cambodia” in Hossain et al eds. Microcredit and International Development (Routledge)

-A.K. Ghalib 2012 “Is Microfinance reaching the poorest? An Investigation into Programme outreach across rural Punjab in Pakistan” in Hossain et al eds. Microcredit and International Development (Routledge)

-A. Priyadarshee et al 2012 “Impact of Microfinance: Evidence from India” in Hossain et al eds. Microcredit and International Development (Routledge)

-M.McGillivray 2008 “What is Development” in D. Kingsbury et al eds. International Development: Issues and Challenges (Palgrave)

-J. McKay 2008 “Reassessing Development Theory: `Modernization’ and Beyond” in Kingsbury et al eds. International Development (Palgrave)

-J. Hunt 2008 “Gender and Development”in Kingsbury et al eds. International Development (Palgrave)

-D. Kingsbury 2008 “Environment and Development”in Kingsbury et al eds. International Development (Palgrave)

-Robert Nozick 2013 “The Entitlement Theory” in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-Peter Singer 2013 “The Right to be Rich or Poor” in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-Amartya Sen 2013 “Equality of What?” in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-UN Millennium Project 2013 “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals”in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-UN Environmental Programme 2013 “Global Environmental Outlook 4” in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-World Bank 2013 “Engendering Development” in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-M. Nussbaum 2013 “Adaptive Preference and Women’s Options”in H.E. Baber and D. Dimon eds. Globalization and International Development: the Ethical Issues. (Broadview)

-W.W. Rostow 2008 “The Five Stages of Growth” in M.A. Seligson & J.T.Passe-Smith eds. Development and Underdevelopment (Rienner)

-A.G. Frank 2008 “The Development of Underdevelopment” in M.A. Seligson & J.T.Passe-Smith eds. Development and Underdevelopment (Rienner)

-A.Van Rooy and M. Robinson 1998 “Out of the Ivory Tower: Civil Society and the Aid System” in A.Van Rooy ed. Civil Society and the Aid Industry. (Earthscan)

-P. Saravanamuttu 1998 “Sri Lanka: Civil Society, the Nation and the State-Building Challenge” in A.Van Rooy ed. Civil Society and the Aid Industry. (Earthscan)

-David R. Morrison 2000 “Canadian Aid: A Mixed Record and an Uncertain Future” in J. Freedman ed. Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World. (Univ of Toronto Press)

-C. Pratt, 2000 “Alleviating Global Poverty or Enhancing Security: Competing Rationales for Canadian Development Assistance” in J. Freedman ed. Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World. (Univ of Toronto Press)

-Ian Smillie 2000 “NGOs: Crisis and Opportunity in the New World Order” in J. Freedman ed. Transforming Development: Foreign Aid for a Changing World. (Univ of Toronto Press)

-M. Lindenberg and C. Bryant 2001 Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs (Kumarian)

-N. Woods 2008 “Whose Aid? Whose Influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance” International Affairs 84 (6): 1205-21

-Chinese State Council 2011 China’s Foreign Aid.

-Chinese State Council 2014 China’s Foreign Aid

-Y.Shimomura and H.Ohashi eds. 2013 A Study of China’s Foreign Aid: An Asian Perspective. (Palgrave)

-E.M. Kim and P.H. Kim eds. 2014 The South Korean Development Experience: Beyond Aid. (Palgrave)

-D.M.Potter 1996 Japan's foreign aid to Thailand and the Philippines (St. Martin’s Press)

- D. Arase ed. 2005 Japan's foreign aid : old continuities and new directions (Routledge)

-S. Fukuda-Parr et al 2002 “Overview: Institutional Innovations for Capacity Development” in S. Fukuda-Parr et al. ed. Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems (Earthscan)

-The Reality of Aid Management Committee 2006 The Reality of Aid 2006 (Zed Books)

-F.H.G. Ferreira and L.C.Keely 2000 “The World Bank and Structural Adjustment: Lessons from the 1980s” in C.L. Gilbert and D. Vines eds. 2000 World Bank: Structure and Policies (Cambridge UP)

- D. Hulme and M. Edwards eds. 1997 NGOs, states and donors: too close for comfort? (St. Martin’s Press)

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