Development Politics (1)
The growth of middle-income strata is often considered critical to the devlopment of a balanced and responsive government.
Development Economics (2)
We survey the literature on Development Economics in order to uncover the basic assumptions, often unexamined, behind the aruguments for economic deve...
Development Economics (1)
We survey the literature on Development Economics in order to uncover the basic assumptions, often unexamined, behind the aruguments for economic deve...
Human Security: An initial discussion
We go over the previous lectures. We designate one or two students as the facilitator of the discussion. The participants are urged to finish the rele...
A Conceptual Framework – 2: Umegaki
a) Development: An examination of the contextual background of “human security” issue. Though historical in nature, the examination should turn up som...
A Conceptual Framework – 1: Umegaki
a) Human Security: Discussion of the beginnings and changing conceptions of human security. This will be followed by the elaboration on what the key c...
Introduction--Umegaki
Umegaki briefly introduces the current as well as past research projects, and basic policy interest of the two instructors of the course. The introduc...