MSc Project Planning & Development Policy Analysis
Entry requirementsThis programme is designed for those intending to pursue careers as project planners and development policy analysts; the professional planning staff of ministries concerned with the design and implementation of development projects and policies and their integration into development programmes; and those working in project planning and development policy analysis in international agencies or academic and research institutions.
Academic titleMSc Project Planning & Development Policy Analysis
Course descriptionContent
You will take three core courses:
* Project planning, appraisal and implementation
* Economic appraisal of development projects
* Quantitative methods for planning - forecasting.
Plus three options and a dissertation. The list of options includes:
* Quantitative methods for planning - optimal decision-making
* Development policy
* Growth and development
* IMF, World Bank and economic growth
* Environmental economics
* Policies for sustainability and development
* Theory and principles of sustainability
* International trade
* Globalisation, trade and economic development
* International macroeconomics and policy
* International finance and money
* Money, finance and growth
* Financial institutions and markets in developing countries
* Economic growth in the 20th century
* Aid and development
* Economics of inequality and deprivation
* Other MSc options subject to approval.