Evaluating Development Impact

  • NINT 5304 - Evaluating Development Impact (Spring 2010)

Section A/CRN 5651
Michael Cohen
Tuesday 6.00pm - 7.50pm
Room: 66 W. 12th St., 713

This course is open for registration only to students who require it as a pre-requisite for the 2010 International Field Programs in Buenos Aires or Uganda.

The first meeting of this course will be Janurary 26th, 2010.

This course focuses on the assessment of the development impact of public policies and international assistance affecting slums, education, and micro-credit in developing countries. The course is intended to prepare students for the International Field Programs in which they will be working on programs and projects intended to improve living conditions in slums, strengthen educational programs, and/or assess the provision of micro-credit. These analytic tasks will be the core of student field work in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Mumbai during the summer of 2009. The course will therefore introduce students to some of the policy and analytic issues involved in these sectors as well as some of the relevant comparative analytic data and country experience. While the course will be required for students participating in these programs, students not intending to participate in these IFPs are also permitted to take the course. Students will be expected to develop research papers on the cities in which they will be working in 2009 as part of their preparatory process.


Concentrations:Cities and Urbanization, Development