MSc Economic Development

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• Academic title
  MSc Economic Development
• 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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