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Course materials

Date	Debate	Speakers	Core texts	Presentation	Additional materials
Tuesday 16 October	The future of development cooperation: what are the upcoming challenges and opportunities?	Gilles Carbonnier (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) Fred Van der Kraaij (former inspector at Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs)	Carbonier, G. & Sumner, A. (2012). Reframing Aid in a World Where the Poor Live in Emerging Economies. International Development Policy Series (3): pp. 3-18.	Carbonnier Van der Kraaij	.
Tuesday 23 October	Bits for Development, windows of opportunities or further burden?	Peter Manderick (Close The Gap, Brussels) François Laureys (International Institute for Communication and Development, The Hague)	Manderick, P. (2012) Bits for Development, windows of opportunities or further burden? Heeks, R.(2009) The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto: Where Next for ICTs and International Development? Development Informatics Working Paper Series (42) Manchester: Institute for Development Policy and Management	Manderick Laureys	Senmartin, D. & Laureys, F (2010) IICD's experience with farmers in Mali and Burkina Faso.Rural farmer’s information networks. i4d, (January-March): pp. 18-21. Warschauer, M. (2003)Technology and Social Inclusion Rethinking the Digital Divide.Massachusetts: The MIT Press Fuchs, C. & Horak E. (2008) Africa and the digital divide, Telematics and Informatics (25): pp. 99–116. Archibugi, D. & Pietrobelli C. (2003) The globalisation of technology and its implications for developing countries Windows of opportunity or further burden?Technological Forecasting & Social Change (70): pp. 861–883. International Telecommunication Union (2011) Using ICTs to tackle climate change
Tuesday 30 October	From climate to conflict: implications for aid policy?	Asif Zaidi (United Nations Environment Programme) Katie Harris (Overseas Development Institute, UK)	Harris, K. (2012) Climate change in UK security policy: implications for development assistance? ODI Working Paper (342) London: Overseas Development Institute	Zaidi Harris	United Nations General Assembly (2009) Climate change and its possible Security implications Report of the Secretary-General A/64/350 United Nations Environment Programme (2011) Livelihood Security: Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in the Sahel Nairobi: UNEP UNEP - disasters and conflicts (website)
Tuesday 06 November	The (non)sense of a Financial Transaction Tax as an innovative development financing instrument	Lieven Denys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Werner Heyvaert	Denys, L. (2012) Why a Financial Transaction Tax? Ec Tax Review (2012/1) Brussels: VUB Worstall, T. (2011) The case against a financial transactions tax, IAE Current controversies Papers (33) London: The Institute of Economic Affairs	Denys	www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/simon-chouffot/robin-hood-tax_b_1957588.html www.makefinancework.org/the-food-crises-the-us-drought/financial-transaction-tax/ leadinggroup.org/rubrique113.html www.cls-group.com Heyvaert, W. (2012) Taxe sur les transactions financières ou la procession dansante d’Echternach
Tuesday 13 November	Africa on the rise, the beginning of a Golden Age for Africa?	Ama Uzowuru (See Africa Differently, UK) Théodore Trefon (Africa Museum Tervuren, Brussels)	McKinsey Global Institute (2010) Lions on the move: the progress and potential of African economies.	Uzowuru	www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/01/africa-history-western-eyes
Tuesday 20 November	Is the governance of the IMF fit for a changed global economic order?	Willy Kiekens (Executive Director of the IMF constituency of Belgium) Jesse Griffiths (Director Eurodad, Brussels)	We propose the content on following webpages: www.imf.org/external/about/govern.htm www.imf.org/external/np/exr/govern/index.htm www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-567219	Kiekens	IMF (2012) Composition of the executive board IEO (2008) Governance at the IMF: An evaluation Woods (2010) Global governance after the financial crisis. A new multilateralism or the last gasp of the great powers blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2010/12/28/2010-the-year-of-imf-reform/
Tuesday 27 November	South-South cooperation: on whose terms?	Antony Otieno Ong’ayo (Utrecht University) Ward Warmerdam (ISS, The Hague)	Bilal, S. (2012). What is the Rise of South-South relations about?, MO Papers.* September. Abstract Antony Otieno Ong'ayo	Ong'ayo	Warmerdam, W. (2012) Is China a liberal internationalist? The Chinese Journal of International Politics (5): pp. 201–243. Kragelund, P. (2012) The Revival of Non-Traditional State Actors’Interests in Africa: Does it Matter for Policy Autonomy? Development Policy Review (30/6): pp. 703-718.
Tuesday 04 December	Engaging Diaspora: finding new ways in development co-operation.	Huub Severiens (Wereldse Zaken, The Netherlands) Joris Michielsen (University of Antwerp)	Newland, K. (2004) Beyond Remittances: The Role of Diaspora in Poverty Reduction in their Countries of Origin. Washington DC: Migration Policy Institute for the Department of International Development	Severiens	Michielsen, J (2012) Diaspora en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, Stad Antwerpen