The growth of middle-income strata is often considered critical to the devlopment of a balanced and responsive government.

We survey the literature on Development Economics in order to uncover the basic assumptions, often unexamined, behind the aruguments for economic development.

We survey the literature on Development Economics in order to uncover the basic assumptions, often unexamined, behind the aruguments for economic development.

We go over the previous lectures. We designate one or two students as the facilitator of the discussion. The participants are urged to finish the relevant readings. No free ride.

a) Development: An examination of the contextual background of “human security” issue. Though historical in nature, the examination should turn up some concepts for both heuristic and analytical purposes. b) Policy Research and Management: We will discuss how a “research” requires a certain degree of neutrality * commitment to context-free explanation * and equally acute sense of its consequences of (or responsibility for) what it produces in the actual context of life.

a) Human Security: Discussion of the beginnings and changing conceptions of human security. This will be followed by the elaboration on what the key conceptual as well as policy issues involved in the “human security” research. b) Umegaki will survey some of the preceding research on “human security.”

Umegaki briefly introduces the current as well as past research projects, and basic policy interest of the two instructors of the course. The introduction will be followed by a brief outline of what this course is meant, supplemented by a simple account of what “policy management” (sougouseisakugaku) is about. We will also give the “must” readings for you to consider throughout the semester.