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T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 8 “The International Aid System” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 131-167. S. Amin, ch. 5 “Aid for development” in Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser? S Amin et al., eds. Pambazuka Press (2009) pp. 59-75. Other reader report reading too: Jonathan Glennie. 2008. The Trouble with aid. Why less could mean more for Africa. London & New York: Zed Books. o Chapter 9: What is to be done? (pp.123-143)

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 7 “The Political Economy of Policy Reform” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 113-129. A. El-Sayed El-Naggar, ch. 2 “Economic policy: from state control to decay and corruption”, in Egypt: The Moment of Change, R. El-Mahdi and P. Marfleet, eds. Zed Books (2009) pp. 34-50. M. El Mouhoub, “Political Economy of Arab Revolutions: Analysis and Prospects for NorthAfrican Countries”, Mondes en développement, 1...

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 6 “Growth and Transformation” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 97-112 (course reader). H. Chitonge, ch. 6 “The political economy of Africa’s economic growth and development experience”, in Economic Growth and Development in Africa, Routledge (2014) pp. 180-222

Summary of: T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 2 “The Colonial Legacy” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 23-40. A. Jakes and A. Shokr, ch. 6 “Capitalism in Egypt, Not Egyptian Capitalism” in A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, J. Beinin et al., eds. Stanford University Press (2020) pp. 123-142. Lecture notes included

T.J. Moss and D. Resnick, ch. 9 “Debt… and Déjà Vu?” in African Development: Making Sense of Issues and Actors, Rienner (2017) pp. 169-184. P. Gakunu “Reforming the Financial System in Sub-Saharan Africa: The (Long) Way Ahead” in Finance & Bien Commun 28-29 (2007) pp. 139-146. Wafik Grais “Islamic Finance in North Africa” in The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2, C. Monga and J. Yifu Lin, eds. OUP (2015) online. (NOT EXAM MATERIAL 2022)

** These chapters were not my strength so the explanations provided do not go beyond what was said in the reading (regarding the more mathematical theories/models). Still well structured tho lol. M. Todaro and S. Smith, ch. 3 “Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development” in Economic Development, Pearson Ltd. (2020) pp. 116-139. M. Todaro and S. Smith, ch. 4 “Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment” in Economic Development, Pearson Ltd. (2020) pp. 164-2...

This document includes all the helpful lecture notes and reading summaries, especially if you haven't read the readings because it is not overly synthesized. Also structured in an easy way for quick reading.