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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND DEVELOPMENT FIRST YEAR ELECTIVE VOLUME 2 Professor Mariana Mota Prado K Winter 2009 3820 .P74 BORA. LASKIN LAW LIBRARY FEB 2 0 2009 FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO V UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND DEVELOPMENT FIRST YEAR ELECTIVE VOLUME 2 Professor Mariana Mota Prado Winter 2009 Table of Contents MODULE 3 “ Latin America- 1. The Washington Consensus Q1: Did free market reforms promote development? Douglas Massey, Magaly Sanchez and Jere Behrman, “Of Myths and Markets” (2006) 6 ANNALS at 8-26 Q2: What is the role of legal institutions in free market economies? Shadid Javed Burki and Guillermo Perry, “Beyond the Washington Consensus: Institutions Matter”(1998) World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 3-9. Nancy Birdsall and Augusti de la Torre, “Moving Beyond the Washington Consensus"(2001) Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equality in Latin America at 3-17. Optional: Thomas E. Skidmore, Modern Latin America, 6^ ed., chapter 2. 2. Institutional Reforms in Latin America Q3: What is the problem? Kenneth Dam, The Law-Growth Nexus: Rule of Law and Economic Development (2006), chapter 5. Q4: Is there a solution? Michael Trebilcock and Ronald Daniels, Rule of Law Reform in Developing Countries: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress (2008), excerpts. 3. Inequality in Latin America Q5: Why is there so much inequality in the region? Michael Reid, The Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul (2007), at 49-51. John H. Coatsworth, “Structures, Endownments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America”(2005) 40:3 Latin America Research Review at 126-144. Q6: How does inequality manifests itself and what can be done about it? Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development {2006), at 222-223. Michael Reid, The Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul (2007), chapter 10. MODULE 4 ~ Asia - 1. Development and Democracy in Asia Q1: Is democracy necessary for growth and vice-versa? Yumei Zhang, Development in Pacific Asia (2003), chapter 2. Jeffrey Cason and Sunder Ramaswamy, “An Introduction to the Debates”, in Development and Democracy (2003) at 3-9. Ashutosh Varshney, “India’s Democratic Challenge” (2007) 86:2 Foreign Affairs at 93-106. Q2: Are Asian values incompatible with democracy? Fareed Zakaria, “Culture is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew” (1994) 73:2 Foreign Affairs at 109-126. Dae Jung Kim, “Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia’s Anti-Democratic Values”(1994) 73:6 Foreign Affairs at 189-194. Amartya Sen, “Choosing Freedom”(2000) 163:4 Far Eastern Economic Review at 37-41. 2. China Q3: is China an enigma? Jacques de Lisle, “Chasing the God of Wealth While Evading the Goddess of Democracy: Development, Democracy, and Law in Reform-Era China", in Jeffrey Cason and Sunder Ramaswamy (eds.). Development and Democracy (2003) at 250-270. Kenneth Dam, The Law-Growth Nexus: Rule of Law and Economic Development (2006), chapter 11.