MSc International Development

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University of Glasgow

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• Academic title
  MSc International Development
• Course description
  MSc: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
  PgDip: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
  
  This programme focuses on methods of analysing possible economic effects of aid, in particular on public expenditure, investment and growth; possible social and political effects of aid in particular on poverty eradication, welfare, corruption and good governance; and the underlying theories of development governing financial assistance by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
  
  Content
  
  You will take three core courses
  
      * Aid and development
      * The IMF, the World Bank and economic growth
      * Globalisation, trade and economic development.
  
  Plus three options and a dissertation. The list of options includes
  
      * Development policy
      * Growth and development
      * International trade
      * Financial institutions and markets in developing countries
      * Basic econometrics
      * Project planning, appraisal and implementation
      * Economic appraisal of development projects
      * Theory and principles of sustainability
      * Policies for sustainability and development
      * Poverty: concept, analysis and policies
      * Economics of inequality and deprivation
      * Other MSc options subject to approval.

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