The curriculum offered in Development studies produces neither knowledge nor skills. The recent outburst over the unemployability of MBA students could well have been about students of development studies too
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For all the work done in the subject of economics, its world is restricted to a few select concepts leading to a gross trivialization. Not just lay individuals but even professionals tend to fall into the trap of making a one-to-one correspondence between economic categories when they should be examined as part of an interlinked system
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How to go beyond? Unfortunately, there is no simple answer. A lot depends on the current and projected status of IT – both software and hardware. Also on how the functions are arranged together with the staff and the system of incentives. The last point receives no mention let alone a discussion in the literature on innovation.
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Sorry about the clumsy ‘play’ on the word IT but I just couldn’t resist the temptation as it conveyed a link and disconnect between IT and innovation. We are living through times when these two words are thrown at us every day, in every walk of life, together and discrete.
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For all talk of comparative dynamics, the curriculum of development studies and even macroeconomics completely ignores the role of learning in development. This is an inexcusable omission
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