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This module introduces students to the key theories, concepts, and contemporary challenges around development, poverty, aid, and the field of global health. Through lectures and tutorials, students will have the opportunity to explore the relationships between the social, political, and economic factors that shape approaches to the global health ‘problem’ from a development perspective. Students will learn some basic economic theory and a range of political and sociological ideas as they address issues such as poverty, colonialism, markets, trade, health systems and governance.

Having completed this module, we would expect students to be able to:

• Understand the different meanings of the term ‘development’ and the politically loaded nature of the term

• Understand the main features of the history of development from the Second World War to the present

• Understand and analyse the roles of different actors in the process of development and the relationships between them

• Understand the concepts of coloniality, aid, trade and poverty in processes of development and the importance of these processes

• Understand the relationship between development and health

• Analyse the reasons underpinning development success and failure

This module is compulsory to students on the iBSc in Global Health and is also available to undergraduate students from other programmes/faculties upon agreement with the iBSc programme lead.

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Selected reading list:

1. What is development? Chapter 1 in: Sumner, A. & Tribe, M. (2008) International Development Studies: Theories and Methods in Research and Practice.
2. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power: Stuart Hall. Chapter 6 in: Gieben, B. & Hall, S. (1992). The Formations of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies an Introduction.
3. Defining Poverty in the Developing World edited by Stewart, F. Saith, R. & Harriss White, B. (2007) Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1.
4. Moving Global Health Governance Forward: Ilona Kickbusch. Chapter 15 in: Buse, K. Hein, W. & Drager, N. (2009). Making Sense of Global Health Governance: A Policy Perspective
5. Dambisa Moyo (2010): Dead Aid – Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa. Chapter 4
6. Shiffman J. (2015) Global Health as a Field of Power Relations: A Response to Recent Commentaries
7. Hickel, J. 2017. The divide: A brief guide to global inequality and its solutions