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Development Studies Special Topics B (DEVT90005)

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Special Topic: Development Policy

This subject will review policy debates evolving around some of the key international – bilateral and multilateral – development actors. It will consider some of the interconnections and tensions around integrated policy: attempts to connect development efforts to other (inter)national interests. Drawing from literature on the anthropology of development, it will also require students to step back and treat development policy as an empirical phenomenon and ask how policy really works: does it actually do what it claims to do?

Intended learning outcomes

Upon completion of this subject, students should:



  • be familiar with the policy trends and debates of key development actors;
  • be familiar with contemporary critiques of mainstream development policy and take positions in these debates;
  • be able to critically reflect on policy as an empirical phenomenon.

Generic skills

The subject is intended to strengthen the following skills:

  • unravelling development policies, place them in historical context and critically reflect on them;
  • construct coherent arguments about development policy;
  • straddle the divide between academic and policy, treat the knowledge, language and workings of both realms at their own merit, and identify tensions and connections between them.

Last updated: 3 November 2022