The 8th NSE International Development Forum

The “Southern Consensus”, Sustainable Development Goals and the Trajectory of Development Thinking

 

Time: 15:30-17:00, Nov. 17 (Thu.), 2016

Venue: F1, Wanzhong Building, National School of Development, Peking University

Language: English

Host: Jiajun Xu（Assistant Professor, Executive Deputy Director at Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University）

Speaker: Charles Gore（Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgowand Research Associate in School of global Studies, University of Sussex）

【ABSTRACT】

In the late 1990s I coined the term “Southern Consensus” to refer to the approach to national development which was being espoused by Latin American neo-structuralists such as Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Fernando Fajnzylber, and was being practiced in successful late industrializers in East Asia. I identified the main tenets of these convergent but independent ideas, and also argued that the Southern Consensus, not the UNDP’s human development approach, was the most effective alternative to the Washington Consensus. 

At the time I also stated that the future demise of the Washington Consensus was inevitable because its methodology and ideology were in conflict. But, although the Southern Consensus was a much more effective approach to national development, I did not see it as the best alternative to the Washington Consensus because neither the Washington Consensus nor the Southern Consensus was fully globalized.

This lecture will present the analytical framework on which these ideas were based. It will also locate subsequent influential ideas, including some work of Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Michael Spence and Justin Lin, against the background of this interpretation. Finally it will consider how global Sustainable Development Goals can be integrated with the Southern Consensus approach as part of a desirable and viable future trajectory for development thinking.

Background Papers

 

“Methodological Nationalism and the Misunderstanding of East Asian Industrialization”, European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.77-122 (1996).

 

“The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries”, World Development, Vol.28, No.5, pp. 789-804 (2000).

 

“The Global Recession of 2009 in a Long-Term Development Perspective", Journal of International Development, Vol.22, No. 6, pp. 714-738 (2010).

 

“The Post-2015 Moment: Towards Sustainable Development Goals and a New Global Development Paradigm”, Journal of International Development, Vol. 27, No..6, pp.717-732 (2015).  

【SPEAKER】

Charles Gore

Originally trained in economic geography, Charles Gore holds an undergraduate and Master’s degree from Cambridge University, UK (1971 and 1975), and a doctorate, based on two-year's fieldwork on the economic organization of food marketing in Ghana, from Pennsylvania State University, USA (1978). He was employed as a Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Wales from 1976 to 1991 contributing to the design and teaching of a new Masters course in regional development policy and a new undergraduate degree programme in development studies. In the 1980s, he worked as a consultant for UNCTAD formulating, and applying in southern Africa, an analytical framework which conceptualized the problem of landlocked countries as a development problem rather than a transport problem. In the 1990s he worked in UNCTAD and ILO. He drafted UNCTAD's initial response to the World Bank’s East Asian Miracle study in 1994 and led a multi-country research project on lessons of East Asian development for Africa from 1997 to 1999 whose results were published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in 2001. He also co-managed a multi-country research project applying the concept of social exclusion in a global context in the ILO in 1995 and 1996. Between 1999 and 2008, he was team leader and principal author of UNCTAD's Least Developed Countries Report and from 2008 until 2012 he was Special Coordinator for Cross-Sectoral Issues, directing research on Africa and on least developed countries in UNCTAD.

He is currently Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and Research Associate in School of global Studies, University of Sussex. His research now focuses on the epistemological, ethical and policy implications of re-framing development as a global rather than national issue. In October 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).

Selected Key Articles

 

“Entitlement Relations and `Unruly' Social Practices: A Comment on the Work of Amartya Sen”, Journal of Development Studies, 29, 3, pp.429-460. 1993

“The Investment-Profits Nexus in East Asian Industrialization”, World Development, Vol.24, No.3, March 1996 (co-author with Y. Akyüz).

“Methodological Nationalism and the Misunderstanding of East Asian Industrialization”, European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.77-122. 1996

“Irreducibly Social Goods and the Informational Basis of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach”, Journal of International Development, Vol.9, No.2, pp.232-250. 1997

“The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries”, World Development, Vol.28, No.5, pp. 789-804. 2000

“African Economic Development in a Comparative Perspective”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 265-288 2001. (co-author with Y. Akyüz).

"MDGs and PRSPs: Are Poor Countries Enmeshed in a Global-Local Double Bind?", Global Social Policy, 4 (3), 277-283. 2004

“Which Growth Theory is Good for the Poor?", European Journal of Development Research, Vol.19, No.1, pp.30-48.   2007

“The MDG Paradigm, Productive Capacities and the Future of Poverty Reduction” IDS Bulletin, Special Issue on MDGs and Beyond, Vol. 41, No.1, pp.70-79. 2010

“The Global Recession of 2009 in a Long-term Development Perspective", Journal of International Development, Vol.22, No. 6, pp. 714-738. 2010

“Beyond the Romantic Violence of the MDGs: Development, Aid and Human Rights”, chapter in M. Langford, A. Sumner, and A. Yasmin, MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future, Cambridge University Press. 2013

“The New Development Cooperation Landscape: Actors, Approaches, Architecture”, Journal of International Development, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp.679-786. 2013.

“The Post-2015 Moment: Towards Sustainable Development Goals and a New Global Development Paradigm”, Journal of International Development, Vol.27, No. 6, 2015.

“Late Industrialization, Urbanization and the Middle-Income Trap: An Analytical Approach and the Case of Vietnam”, under consideration for publication in a Special Issue of  Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economies and Society dedicated to the memory of Alice Amsden, 2017.   

 

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