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MSc Economic Development
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Academic title
MSc Economic Development
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Course description
MSc: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
PgDip: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
This programme is intended for those with careers in teaching and/or research in economic development or the specialist areas covered by the programme; government officials concerned with economic development; and development workers in international agencies and similar organisations.
Content
You take three core courses:
* Development policy
* Growth and development
* IMF, World Bank and economic growth.
Plus three options and a dissertation. The list of options includes:
* Money, finance and growth
* Financial institutions and markets in developing countries
* Project planning appraisal and implementation
* Economic appraisal of development projects
* Quantitative methods for planning - forecasting
* Quantitative methods for planning - optimal decision making
* Basic econometrics
* Advanced econometrics
* Welfare economics and public policy (double course)
* Environmental economics
* Political economy of the environment & sustainable development (double course)
* International trade
* Globalisation, trade & economic development
* Civil society & the state in Central Eastern Europe (double course)
* Economic growth in the 20th century
* Economic history of East Asia and Japan since 1945
* China in the international economy
* Politics of gender in development.
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