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Amazon logo [DOI] Rogers, Everett M. Diffusion of Innovations. 5th ed. New York, NY: Free Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780743222099.

Amazon logo Yunus, Muhammad. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. New York, NY: PublicAffairs/Perseus Books, 2003. ISBN: 9781586481988.

Amazon logo Prahalad, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780131877290.


LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Big ideas
2Development entrepreneurship, $100k and IDEAS competitionsDOI, chapter 1
3IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation
4Team formation, meaning of "Development" and proposal outlineDOI, chapter 3
5Co-evolutionary design for development
6Case study — Muhammad Yunus (Susan Murcott)Banker to the Poor - begin
7Case study — Muhammad Yunus - continued discussion (Susan Murcott)Banker to the Poor - finish
8Case study — Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Venkataswamy (Ali Alhassani)

Amazon logo Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York, NY: Random House, 2003, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780375506161.

Partners in Health
9TheoryDOI, chapters 4 and 5
10IDEAS proposals review workshop
11Case study — participatory development and patent basics and confidentiality (Tamira Gunzburg)

Reading Guide (PDF) (Courtesy Tamira Gunzburg. Used with permission.)

Chambers, Robert. "Participatory Rural Appraisal: Analysis of Experience." World Development 22 (1994): 1253-1268.

Participatory Learning and Action

Guijt, Irene, and Andrea Cornwall. "Critical Reflections on the Practice of PRA." PLA Notes, no. 24 (1995): 2-7.

Two Web sites that complement these readings:

Social Impact Assessment

Guidelines and Principles for Social Impact Assessment
12Case study — Ghana pottery and patents (cont.) (Jessica Lee)Browne, Angela W. "Appropriate Technology and the Dynamics of Village Industry: A Case Study of Pottery in Ghana." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 6 (1981): 313-323.
13Finance

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. "Meeting the Needs of Technology Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts." (PDF)

Boston Harbor Angels

Golden Seeds
14Case study — making aid work (Angela Kilby)

Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak. "Making Aid Work." Boston Review, 2006. (Also in Amazon logo Making Aid Work. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780262026154.)

URL responses to "Making Aid Work"

Case study — mixed income housing (Daniel Bergey)

Rosenbaum, James E., Linda K. Stroh, and Cathy A. Flynn. "Lake Parc Place: A Study of Mixed-Income Housing." Housing Policy Debate 9 (1998): 703-740.

Brophy, Paul C., and Rhonda N. Smith. "Mixed-Income Housing: Factors for Success." Cityscape 3 (1997): 3-31.

15Finance (cont.)Mauro Nunez links/project (PDF)
16Case study — rural energy in developing countries (Zehra Ali)

Reddy, Amulya K. N. "Energy Technologies and Policies for Rural Development." Chapter 4 in Energy for Sustainable Development: A Policy Agenda. Edited by Thomas B. Johansson, Jose Goldemberg. New York, NY: UNDP, 2002. (PDF)#

Richards, Peter. "Renewable Development: New Strategies in Rural Electrification."

Williams, Neville. "Chasing the Sun Around the World."

Steinberg, Douglas, Heidi Rahn, and Andy Horsnell. "Igniting Innovation: A Thought Leaders Strategy Forum." Lemelson Foundation Report, 2005. (PDF) (Courtesy of The Lemelson Foundation. Used with permission.)

Case study — eco-efficiency (Tess Veuthey)Amazon logo McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. "Eco-Effectiveness." In Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York, NY: North Point Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780865475878.
17IdeasStream conferenceDOI, chapters 6 and 7
18Monitoring and evaluation

Abdul Latif Jameen Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

Duflo, Esther. "Field Experiments in Development Economics." Chapter 13 in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress. Vol. 2. Edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney K. Newey, and Torsten Persson. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780521871532.

Duflo, Esther, Glennerster, Rachel, and Kremer, Michael. "Randomized Evaluations of Interventions in Social Science Delivery."

19Case study — total sanitation (Ibrahim Kanan)

"Making Sanitation Work." Jal Manthan 7 (Rural Think Tank), (December 2002). The Water and Sanitation Program (PDF)#

Kar, Kamal. "Practical Guide to Triggering Community-Led Total Sanitation." Institute of Development Studies, 2005. (PDF) (Courtesy of Institute of Development Studies. Used with permission.)

"Igniting Change: Tackling the Sanitation Challenge." Jal Manthan 5 (Rural Think Tank) (April 2002). (PDF)#

20Technology for remediation of arsenic in drinking waterDOI, chapters 8 and 9
21Case study — human waste reuse (Xavier Gonzalez)

Reed, Bob, and Rod Shaw. "Using Human Waste." Technical Brief 63. Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough (WELL). (PDF)#

Adam, David. "Human Waste Used to Create Green Fuel." The Guardian, November 29, 2006.

Tarr, Joel A., et al. "Water and Wastes: A Retrospective Assessment of Wastewater Technology in the United States, 1800-1932." Technology and Culture 25, no. 2 (April 1984): 226-63.

22Social marketingDOI, chapters 10 and 11
23Case study — biogas in Nepal (Chris Tostado)
24Final presentationsEntire class
25Final presentations (cont.)Entire class

 








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