Development Policy and Practice

Development Policy & Practice in Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology

Dr Joseph Hanlon

Development Policy and Practice
Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Phone number: + 44 (0)1908 654634
Fax number: + 44 (0) 1908 654825
Email: Joe Hanlon
Personal Webpage

Position: Senior Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice

Biography and research interests:

Joseph Hanlon is active in four areas of research:

Mozambique: Joseph has been writing about Mozambique since 1978, and is now the most cited social science academic on that country. His most recent books, Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique and Há mais bicicletas - mas há desenvolvimento? have recently been published. He has been the editor of the Mozambique Political Process Bulletin since 1992. The Bulletin is free. To subscribe, write to: j.hanlon@open.ac.uk. His Mozambique website is http://www.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambique He is a member of the advisory councils of the Centro de Integridade Pública in Maputo and of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters based in Johannesburg.

Just give money to the poor: With the Brooks World Poverty Institute of the University of Manchester, Joseph is writing a book on cash transfers (such as child benefit and non-contributory pensions) in developing countries.

Debt, international financial institutions, the aid industry: Joseph developed the concept of ‘illegitimate debt’ – that is, international loans which are odious or otherwise unacceptable and thus should not be repaid and are the liability of the lender, not the borrower. Based in part on his research, this concept was adopted by the Norwegian government in 2006. Dr Hanlon was policy advisor and economist for the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel poor country debt. He has also written extensively on aid policy and aid channels, and is now developing the concept of universal cash transfers to the poor in Africa.

Civil wars: Joseph has written both on the roots of civil wars and on post-war intervention, which is linked to his work on aid.

Joseph Hanlon is also a visiting fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre of the London School of Economics.

Teaching:

Joseph Hanlon was principle author of the course TU875 War, Intervention & Development in the Development Management MSc programme - first presentation was November 2005.

Selected Publications:

Refereed journal articles and working papers

(2007) 'Wolfowitz, the World Bank, and Illegitimate Lending', The Brown Journal of World Affairs. 13(2): 41-54
(2007) “Contested Sovereignty in Mozambique: The Dilemmas of Aid Dependence”, with Paolo de Renzio, Managing Aid Dependence Project GEG Working Paper 2007/25, The Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford, http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/docs/DerenzioandHanlon_Mozambiquepaperrev120107.pdf
(2006) "Identifying Fraud in Democratic Elections: a case study of the 2004 presidential election in Mozambique”, with Sean Fox; LSE Crisis States Research Centre Working Paper No. 8 (series 2) http://www.crisisstates.com/Publications/wp/WPseries2/wp8.2.htm
(2006) '"Illegitimate" loans: Lenders, not borrowers are responsible', Third World Quarterly 27(2):211-226.
(2005) "Is the international community helping to recreate the preconditions for war in Sierra Leone?" The Round
(2004) "Do Donors Promote Corruption?: The case of Mozambique”, Third World Quarterly, Vol.25(4) 747-763. pp. 747-763. ISSN 0143-6597
(2004) “It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor”, Development and Change, 35(2): 375-383
(2004) “Renewed land debate and the ‘cargo cult’ in Mozambique”, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol 30(3), 603-626.
(2002) “Bank corruption becomes site of struggle in Mozambique,” in Review of African Political Economy, 91: 53-72

Books:

(2008, forthcoming) Do more bicycles equal development in Mozambique?, James Currey, Oxford.
(2008) Há mais bicicletas - mas há desenvolvimento?, Missanga, Maputo, Mozambique
(2005) Civil War, Civil Peace, co-edited with Helen Yanacopulos, James Currey, Oxford; Ohio University Press; Open University Press, Milton Keynes. ISBN 0-85255-895-3, 2005.
(2001) Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000, co-authored with Frances Christie, pp176, James Currey, Oxford and Indiana University Press, Indiana, USA. ISBN 0253339782. Also published in Japanese 2002.
(2001) Moçambique e as Grandes Cheias de 2000, Livaria Universitária Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.

Book chapters:

(2008, forthcoming) “Debt and Development”, Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues, eds Paul A. Haslam, Jessica Schafer and Pierre Beaudet, Oxford University Press, Don Mills (Canada)
(2008 forthcoming, with Paolo de Renzio) “Mozambique: Contested Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Aid Dependence”, The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors, ed Lindsay Whitfield, Oxford University Press, Oxford
(2007) “Grabbing attention” in Research Skills for Policy and Development, ed Alan Thomas & Giles Mohan, Sage, London, ISBN 978-1-4129-4564-6
(2006) “Defining ‘Illegitimate Debt’: When creditors should be liable for improper loans”, ed Chris Jochnick & Fraser A Preston, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-516800-3
(2005) "Bringing it all together: A case study of Mozambique", in Postconflict Development, ed Gerd Junne & Willemijn Varkoren, Lynne Reiner, Boulder & London, ISBN 1-58826-303-7.
(2005) “A flawed election process in Mozambique and a landslide victory for Frelimo” in Outside the Ballot Box – Preconditions for elections in southern Africa 2004/5, ed Jeanete Minnie, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Windhoek, Namibia. no ISBN. Dated 2004 but actually published 2005.
(2005) “Defining ‘illegitimate debt’: When Should Creditors Be Liable For Improper Loans?” in Chris Jochnick and Fraser A. Preston, eds, Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads: Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford.
(2004) “It is Possible to Just Give Money to the Poor” in Catalysing Development? A Debate on Aid, by Jan Pronk et al, Blackwell, Malden (MA USA), Oxford, Carlton (Victoria, Australia), ISBN 1-4051-2119-X. Reprinted journal article.
“Mozambique” in Africa Yearbooks 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Andreas Mehler et al, eds, Brill, Leiden & Boston.