The economies of many Asian countries have grown rapidly over the last several decades. Some of them, like South Korea, have even joined the ‘rich man’s club,’ the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.  This course will study the political and economic pathways traveled by select Asian countries on their road to prosperity…

This course will provide a graduate level introduction to the comparative study of development.  The course is organized around the issue of why some parts of the developing world have done better at “development” than other parts.  Whereas Asia is often viewed as developing rapidly, sub-Saharan Africa has just as often been treated as a…