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I — Introduction
1First class / overview
2The context: the state and industrialization

Evans, Peter. "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization." World Politics 50 (1997): 62-87.

Bruton, Henry. "A Reconsideration of Import Substitution." Journal of Economic Literature 36 (1998): 903-936.

Huang, Yasheng. "China Could Learn from India." Kantipur Daily, February 2, 2006, online edition.



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Amazon logo Polak, Ben, and Jeffrey G. Williamson. "Poverty, Policy, and Industrialization in the Past." Chapter 10 in Including the Poor: Proceedings of a Symposium. Edited by Michael Lipton and Jacques van der Gaag. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 1993, pp. 219-246. ISBN: 9780821326749.

Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert O. "The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America." In A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development and Latin America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 85-123. ASIN: B000MAOVW6.

Helleiner, Gerald K. "Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered." In World Development Studies 6. Helsinki, Poland: UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1995.

II — The informal sector
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Amazon logo Portes, Alejandro. "The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes." Chapter 17 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology. 2nd ed. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780691121260.

Amazon logo Saavedra-Chanduvi, Jaime. "The Informal Sector and the State: Institutions, Inequality, and Social Norms." In Informality: Exit and Exclusion. By Guillermo Perry, William Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007. ISBN: 9780821370926. Required: pp.215-223 (up to "The tax side..."), rest optional.



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Amazon logo Peattie, Lisa. "What Is to be Done With the Informal Sector? A Case Study of Shoe Manufacturing in Colombia." In Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization. Edited by Helen Safa. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 208-232. ISBN: 9780195613070.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Beating Wall St. and the Corner Grocery: Workers of All Incomes Find Powerful Ally in State Attorney General." The New York Times, January 2, 2004, Section A, p. 25.

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Amazon logo Perry, Guillermo, and William Maloney. "Overview." In Informality: Exit and Exclusion. By Guillermo Perry, William Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007. ISBN: 9780821370926. Required: pp. 1-7, rest optional.

Amazon logo Fajnzylber, Pablo. "Informality, Productivity, and the Firm." In Informality: Exit and Exclusion. By Guillermo Perry, William Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007. ISBN: 9780821370926. Required: pp. 147-164 up to "Cross-country evidence...,"and pp. 174-177; rest optional.

Amazon logo Perry, Guillermo, William Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi. Informality: Exit and Exclusion. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007, pp. 147-164 to "Cross country evidence...," and pp. 175-177. ISBN: 9780821370926.



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Maloney, William. "Informality Revisited." World Development 32, no. 7 (2004): 1159-1178.

Galli, Rossana, and David Kucera. "Labor Standards and Informal Employment in Latin America." World Development 32, no. 5 (2004): 809-828.

Amazon logo Kuruvilla, Sarosh, and Bryan Mundell. "Introduction." In Colonialism, Nationalism and the Institutionalization of Industrial Relations in the Third World. Edited by Sarosh Kuruvilla and Bryan Mundell. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780762304967.

III — The implementing organizations and their professionals
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Joshi, Anu. "Public Sector Unions and Policy Reform: The Case of Joint Forest Management in West Bengal." Draft article. Brighton, UK: University of Sussex, Centre for the Future State, Institute of Development Studies, 2006.

Crook, Richard, and Joseph Ayee. "Urban Service Partnerships, 'Street-Level Bureaucrats' and Environmental Sanitation in Mumasi and Accra, Ghana: Coping with Organisational Change in the Public Bureaucracy." Development Policy Review 23 (2006): 1-23 (especially pp. 11-23).

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Jain, Pankaj, and Mick Moore. "What Makes Micro-credit Programmes Effective? Fashionable Fallacies and Workable Realities." Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies, IDS Working Paper 177, November 2002.

Amazon logo Goetz, Anne Marie. "Local Heroes? How Field Workers Determine Policy Outcomes." In Women Development Workers: Implementing Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh. New Delhi, India: Sage Press, 2001. ISBN: 9789840516100.



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Dugger, Celia. "Debate Stirs Over Tiny Loans for World's Poorest." The New York Times, April 29, 2004, Section 1, p. 1.

Amazon logo Armendáriz, Beatriz, and Jonathan Morduch. "Microfinance: Where Do We Stand?" In Financial Development and Economic Growth: Explaining the Links. Edited by Charles Goodhart. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 9781403920669.

Morduch, Jonathan. "Microfinance Without Trade-Offs." Revised version of a keynote address delivered at the 3rd International Conference on Finance for Growth and Poverty Reduction, held at the University of Manchester, April 10, 2002. Draft dated August 26, 2002, sent by the author.

Amazon logo Justice, Judith. "The Invisible Health Worker: The Peon" and "Sources of Information." In Policies, Plans & People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780520054240.

Tendler, Judith, and Sara Freedheim. "Trust in a Rent-seeking World: Health and Government Transformed in Northeast Brazil." World Development 22 (December 1994): 1771-1791.

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Bianchi, Tito. "The Agronomists and Land Improvement: The Meeting of Politics and Technocracy." Redistribution Within a Democratic Society: The "Finished Business" of the Italian Agrarian Reform. PhD dissertation, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. Abstract (p. 3), Introduction (pp. 9-14 sufficient); Chapter 5 (pp. 159-185).

Amazon logo Bunker, Stephan. "Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Colonization Projects." In Underdeveloping the Amazon. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 180-198. ISBN: 9780226080321.



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Amazon logo Justice, Judith. "The Invisible Health Worker: The Peon" and "Sources of Information." In Policies, Plans, & People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986, pp. 101-106. ISBN: 9780520054240.

Tendler, Judith, and Sara Freedheim. "Trust in a Rent-seeking World: Health and Government Transformed in Northeast Brazil." World Development 22 (December 1994): 1771-1791.

8Donor organizations large and small

Amazon logo Tendler, Judith. Inside Foreign Aid. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780801820168. Chapter 1, "Introduction"; chapter 2, "The Task and the Organizational Fit"; chapter 5, "The Abundance of Foreign Development," pp. 54-58, 71-72, rest optional; chapter 7, "The Organizational Economy of Large Projects"; chapter 8, "Conclusion," pp. 102-110, rest optional.

Amazon logo DiMaggio, Paul, and Walter Powell, editors. "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organization Fields." In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991, Chapter 3, pp. 63-82. ISBN: 9780226677095.



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Amazon logo Meyer, John, and Brian Rowan. "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony." In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991, see especially pp. 54-62. ISBN: 9780226677095.

Ban, Carolyn, and Mark Huddleston. "Exporting Administrative Reform to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Role of the Consultants in Technical Assistance." Paper prepared for Annual Meeting of the Association of Public Policy and Management, Washington, D.C., November 1999.

IV — The rural economy and linkages
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Haggblade, Steven, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon. Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy: Opportunities and Threats in the Developing World. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Chapter 16, "Research Perspectives and Prospectives on the Rural Nonfarm Economy," including the table "Common myths about the rural nonfarm economy (RNFE)."

Haggblade, Steven, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon. "The Rural Nonfarm Economy: Pathway Out of Poverty or Pathway In?" Paper presented at 2005 conference, "The Future of the Small Farm," drawn from the authors' book (2006), Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy. (PDF)#



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Amazon logo Ranis, Gustav, and Frances Stewart. "Rural Linkages in the Philippines and Taiwan." In Macro-policies for Appropriate Technology in Developing Countries. Edited by Frances Stewart. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987, pp. 140-191. ISBN: 9780813373034.

Biggs, Stephen. "Learning from the Positive to Reduce Rural Poverty: Institutional Innovations in Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Development." Paper prepared for the Impact Assessment Workshop organized by the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), October 19-21, 2005 at CIMMYT Headquarters, Mexico.

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Eicher, Carl. "Flashback: Fifty Years of Donor Aid to African Agriculture." In Successes in African Agriculture: Building for the Future. Edited by Steve Haggblade, et al. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Tendler, Judith. "Tales of Dissemination in Small-farm Agriculture: Lessons for Institution Builders." World Development 21 (October 1994): 1567-1582.



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Dugger, Cecilia. "In Africa, Prosperity From Seeds Falls Short." New York Times, October 10, 2007.

Gotsch, Carl. "Technical Change and the Distribution of Income in Rural Areas." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 54 (May 1972): 326-341.

Finan, Timothy. "Market Relationships and Market Performance in Northeast Brazil." American Ethnologist 15 (1988): 694-709.

Moss, Daniel. "Why Aren't We Looking at Lessons about Producers-Buyers Relationship and Niche Markets in Non-Export Cases? Farmers and Wholesalers in El Salvador's Central Wholesale Market." Master's Thesis, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.

V — Micro, small, or medium enterprises
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Mead, Donald, and Carl Liedholm. "The Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries." World Development 26 (1998): 61-74.

Jenkins, Rhys. "Globalisation and Employment: Working for the Poor?" In Insights: Development Research no. 47 (June 2003): 1-2.



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Lepenies, Philipp. "Exit, Voice and Vouchers: Using Vouchers to Train Microentrepreneurs: Observations from the Paraguayan Voucher Scheme." World Development 32, no. 4 (2004): 713-724.

VI — Workers and development
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Amazon logo Stiglitz, Joseph. "Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor," and explanatory preface to the paper. Keynote Address, IRRA (Industrial Relations Research Association), Boston, January 2000. Also available on Stiglitz website, and published with the same title in (1) Perspectives on Work 4 (2000): 31-38; and (2) The Rebel Within. Edited by Ha-Joon Chang. London, UK: Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2001, pp. 279-315. ISBN: 9781898855538.

Rai, Saritha. "India Hopes for Growth in Textile Exports." The New York Times, July 30, 2004, Section W, p. 1.

Yardley, Jim, and David Barboza. "Help Wanted: China Finds Itself with a Labor Shortage." The New York Times, April 3, 2005.

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Amazon logo Rodrik, Dani. "Tensions between Trade and Domestic Social Arrangements" and "Implications." In Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington, DC: Institute of International Economics, 1997, pp. 29-48 (recommended: pp. 69-85), rest optional. ISBN: 9780881322415.

Bradsher, Keith. "Like Japan in the 1980's, China Poses Big Economic Challenge." The New York Times, March 2, 2004, Section C, p. 1.



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Wood, Adrian. "Globalization and the Rise in Labor Market Inequalities." The Economic Journal 108 (1998): 1463-1482.

Amazon logo Jacoby, Sanford. "Risk and the Labor Market: Societal Past as Economic Prologue." In Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes. Edited by Ivar Berg and Arne Kalleberg. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001, pp. 31-60. ISBN: 9780306464539.

14Domestic institutions: labor inspectors

Special session to discuss Roberto Pires doctoral paper:

Pires, Roberto. "Bringing the Law and the Firm Together: Labor Inspectors and the Reconciling of Social Protection with Economic Development in Brazil." Draft paper, October 14, 2007. (Pires will address questions raised by the class, so students should read the paper before class and come prepared with questions.)

Schrank, Andrew. "Professionalization and Probity in the Patrimonial State: Labor Law Enforcement in the Dominican Republic." University of New Mexico, Department of Sociology, August 2007 (submitted for publication).



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Schrank, Andrew. "Labor Standards and Human Resources: A Natural Experiment in an Unlikely Laboratory." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 11, 2006.

Piore, Michael. "Rethinking Mexico's Labor Standards in a Global Economy." Comercio Exterior 55, no. 2 (2005): 140-147.

15Labor unions

Damiani, Octavio. "Effects on Employment, Wages, and Labor Standards of Non-Traditional Export Crops in Northeast Brazil." Latin American Research Review 38 (2003): 83-112.

Beckman, Bjorn. "Trade Unions, Institutional Reform, and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons." Transition: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa no. 48 (2002). (A revised version published in Harris, John, Kristian Stokke, and Olle Tornquist, eds. Changing Continuities: The Local Politics of Democratisation in Developing Countries. London, UK: Palgrave, 2004.)

Gonzalez, David, and Samuel Loewenberg. "Banana Workers Get Day in Court." The New York Times, January 18, 2003, Section B, p. 1.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Local 226, 'The Culinary,' Makes Las Vegas the Land of the Living Wage." The New York Times, June 3, 2004, Section A, p. 22.

———. "Union Takes New Tack in Organizing Effort at Pork-Processing Plant." The New York Times, February 13, 2006, Section A, p. 16.



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Amazon logo Locke, Richard. "Industrial Adjustment and Industrial Relations in the Automobile Industry." In Remaking the Italian Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 103-134. ISBN: 9780801484216.

Murillo, Victoria, and Andrew Schrank. "With a Little Help from My Friends: Partisan Politics, Transnational Alliances, and Labor Rights in Latin America." Comparative Political Studies 38 (October 2005): 971-999.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Unions Plan Big Drive for Better Pay at Nonunion Wal-Mart." The New York Times, December 11, 2004.

16The high-road vs. low-road path in workplace transformation

Bailey, Thomas, and Annette Bernhardt. "In Search of the High Road in a Low-Wage Industry." Politics and Society 25 (June 1997): 179-201.

Navas-Aleman, Lizbeth, and Luiza Bazan. "Local Implementation of Quality, Labor and Environmental Standards: Opportunities for Upgrading in the Footwear Industry." SEED Working Paper no. 45, International Labor Organization, Geneva, 2003.

Knauss, Jody. "Modular Mass Production: High Performance on the Low Road." Politics and Society 26 (1998): 273-296.



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Godard, John, and John Delaney. "Reflections on the 'High Performance' Paradigm's Implications for Industrial Relations as a Field." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 53 (April 2000): 482-502.

Osterman, Paul. "How Common Is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts It?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review 47 (January 1994): 173-188.

17Monitoring of labor standards in global supply chains: the Nike case

Special session with Prof. Richard Locke, Sloan School of Management (Prof. Locke will not present the papers below, and the class will pose questions based on their reading):

Locke, Richard, Fei Quin, and Alberto Brause. "Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike." Industrial Relations Research Review 61 (October 2007): 1-29.

Locke, Richard, and Monica Romis. "Improving Work Conditions in a Global Supply Chain." MIT Sloan Management Review 48 (Winter 2007): 54-62.



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O'Rourke, Dara. "Monitoring the Monitors: A Critique of PricewaterhouseCooper's Labor Monitoring." White paper, September 28, 2000.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Nike Shoe Plant in Vietnam is Called Unsafe for Workers." The New York Times, November 8, 1997.

———. "M.I.T. Report Says Global Accounting Firm Overlooks Factory Abuses." The New York Times, September 28, 2000.

O'Rourke, Dara. "Multi-stakeholder Regulation: Privatizing or Socializing Global Labor Standards?" World Development 34 (2006): 899-918.

Foster, Lauren, and Alexandra Harney. "Why Ethical Sourcing Means Show and Tell." Financial Times, Comment and Analysis, April 22, 2005, p. 17.

18Labor standards and globalization

Amazon logo Elliott, Kimberly, and Richard Freeman. Can Labor Standards Improve under Globalization? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2003. ISBN: 9780881323320.

Amazon logo Freeman, Richard, and Peter Gottschalk, editors. "Introduction." In Generating Jobs: How to Increase Demand for Less-Skilled Workers. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9780871543615.



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Sabel, Charles, Dara O'Rourke, and Archon Fung. "Ratcheting Labor Standards: Regulation for Continuous Improvement in the Global Workplace." May 2, 2000. KSG Working Paper No. 00-010; Columbia Law and Economic Working Paper No. 185; Columbia Law School, Pub. Law Research Paper No. 01-21. Available at SSRN.

Abrami, Regina. "Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. Case: 9-703-034, August 21, 2003.

———. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. Case: 9-703-043, April 6, 2006.

Piore, Michael. "Labor Standards and Business Strategies." In Labor Standards and Development in the Global Economy. Edited by Stephen Herzenberg and Jorge Perez-Lopez. Washington, DC: Department of Labor, 1990, Chapter 2, pp. 35-45. [ASIN: B000103ZCY]

Hilton, Isabel. "Made in China." Granta 89 (Spring 2005): pp. 15-54 (particularly pp. 15-19, 43-47).

Shaiken, Harley. "Going South: Mexican Wages and U.S. Jobs After NAFTA." The American Prospect 15 (Fall 1993): 58-64.

VII — Local economic development, political economy, and public support
19Business associations

Doner, Richard, and Ben Schneider. "Business Associations and Economic Development: Why Some Associations Contribute More than Others." Business and Politics 3 (2000): 261-288.

Cammett, Melani. "Fat Cats and Self-Made Men: Globalization and the Paradoxes of Collective Action." Comparative Politics 37 (July 2005): 379-400.



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Amazon logo Biddle, Jesse, and Vedat Milor. "Economic Governance in Turkey: Bureaucratic Capacity, Policy Networks, and Business Associations." In Business and the State in Developing Countries. Edited by Sylvia Maxfield and Ben Schneider. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 277-310. ISBN: 9780801484063.

Cammett, Melani. "Business-Government Relations and Industrial Change: The Politics of 'Clustering' in Morocco and Tunisia." Political Science Department, Brown University, 2005.

Schrank, Andrew. "Entrepreneurship, Export Diversification, and Economic Reform: The Birth of a 'Developmental Community' in the Dominican Republic." Comparative Politics 38 (2005).

20Small-firm programs, and small firms vs. large

Amazon logo Brown, Charles, James Hamilton, and James Medoff. "Images of Large and Small Employers," "The Economic Backdrop," "Generating New Jobs," "Wages: Bigger Means More," "Who Benefits?" and "A Fuller Picture." In Employers Large and Small. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780674251625. (Chapters 2-5 optional).

Tendler, Judith. "Small Firms, the Informal Sector, and the Devil's Deal." IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies at Sussex) 33 (July 2002).

Andrews, Edmund. "Where Do the Jobs Come From?" The New York Times, September 21, 2004, Section E, p. 1.



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Criscuolo, Alberto. "Artisan Associations and Small Business Development in the 'Third' Italy." Master's Thesis, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002, pp. 3-4, 9-32, 112-134.

Amazon logo Berger, Suzanne. "The Uses of the Traditional Sector in Italy: Why Declining Classes Survive." In The Petite Bourgeoisie. Edited by Frank Bechafer and Brian Elliot. New York, NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1981, pp. 71-89. ISBN: 9780333350720.

Gibson, Edward. "The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina." World Politics 49 (April 1997): 339-370.

21Clusters and value chains

Humphrey, John, and Hubert Schmitz. "How Does Insertion in Global Value Chains Affect Upgrading in Industrial Clusters?" Regional Studies 36 (2002): 1017-1027.

Amazon logo Schmitz, Hubert. "Globalized Localities: Introduction." In Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Edited by Hubert Schmitz. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp.1-19. ISBN: 9781845421922.



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Amazon logo Kaplinsky, Raphael. "Globalisation and Unequalisation: What Can Be Learned from Value Chain Analysis?" In Globalisation and Trade. Edited by Oliver Morrissey and Igor Filatotchev. London, UK: Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780714651590.

Schmitz, Hubert, and Bernard Musyck. "Industrial Districts in Europe: Policy Lessons for Developing Countries?" World Development 22 (June 1994): 889-910.

Hudson, R. "Institutional Change, Cultural Transformation, and Economic Regeneration: Myths and Realities from Europe's Old Industrial Areas." In Globalisation, Institutions, and Regional Development in Europe. Edited by L. Fawcett and A. Hurell. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Loebis, Lienda, and Hubert Schmitz. "Java Furniture Makers: Winners or Losers from Globalisation?" Development and Practice 15 (2005).

Amazon logo Bazan, Luiza, and Lizbeth Navas-Aleman. "The Underground Revolution in the Sinos Valley: A Comparison of Upgrading in Global and National Value Chains." In Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Edited by Hubert Schmitz. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 110-139. ISBN: 9781845421922.

22Local economic development

Amazon logo Meyer-Stamer, Jörg. "Local Economic Development: What Makes It Difficult, What Makes It Work." In Asymmetries in Regional Integration and Local Development. Edited by Paolo Giordana, Francesco Lanzafame, and Jörg Meyer-Stamer. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 2005, pp. 215-250. ISBN: 9781597820042.

Nadvi, Khalid, and Gerhard Halder. "Local Clusters in Global Value Chains: Exploring Dynamic Linkages between Germany and Pakistan." Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 17 (2005): 339-363.



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Levy, Brian. "Can Intervention Work? The Role of Government in SME Success/Successful Small and Medium Enterprises and their Support Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Four Country Studies." Policy Research Department, Finance and Private Sector Development Division, The World Bank, February 9, 1994.

Perez-Aleman, Paola. "Learning, Adjustment and Economic Development: Transforming Firms, the State, and Associations in Chile." World Development 28 (2000): 41-55.

Doeringer, Peter, and David Terkla. "Turning Around Local Economies: Managerial Strategies and Community Assets." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 9 (1990): 487-506.

Ortez, Omar. "Manufacturing Firms and Local Jobs: The Influence of Competitive Strategies on Labor in the Garment Sector of San Francisco El Alto, Guatemala." Master's Thesis, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.

23Exporting and public support

Amazon logo Keesing, Donald, and Sanjaya Lall. "Marketing Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries: Learning Sequences and Public Support." In Trade Policy, Industrialization, and Development: New Perspectives. Edited by Gerald Helleiner. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. 176-193. ISBN: 9780198283591. (Study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University.)

Tewari, Meenu. "Varieties of Global Integration: Navigating Institutional Legacies and Global Networks in India's Textile and Apparel Industry." Competition and Change 12, no. 1 (2008): 49-67.



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Amazon logo Helleiner, Gerald. Manufacturing for Export in the Developing World: Problems and Possibilities. London, UK: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 9780415123877.

Tewari, Meenu, and Poonam Pillai. "Global Standards and Environmental Compliance in the Indian Leather Industry." Oxford Economic Studies 33 (June 2004): 246-267.

Amazon logo Wood, Adrian, and Kate Jordan. "Why Does Zimbabwe Export Manufacturers and Uganda Not? Econometrics Meets History." In Globalisation and Trade. Edited by Oliver Morrissey and Igor Filatotchev. London, UK: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001, pp. 91-116. ISBN: 9780714651590.

Kelegama, Saman, and Fritz Foley. "Impediments to Promoting Backward Linkages from the Garment Industry in Sri Lanka." World Development 27 (1999): 1445-1460.

24Foreign direct investment: local outcomes and dilemmas

Hanson, Gordon. "Should Countries Promote Foreign Direct Investment?" G-24 Discussion Paper Series. UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), 2001.

Tewari, Meenu. "Industrial Upgrading and the 'Double-Binds' of FDI Policies: Illustrations from India's Automobile Industry." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning, April 8, 2006.



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Tendler, Judith. "The Economic Wars Between the States." Working Paper Series, MIT/BNB project (Banco do Nordeste – Northeast Brazilian Development Bank), 2000.

25Last class

 








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