The Course Programme

The Course Programme

The programme comprises three semesters consisting of 19 course modules, including a Project and Dissertation Period of 6 months. Six courses are compulsory (marked with *), eight out of 13 offered optional courses must be taken (one of these either Quantitative Methods of Economics or Project Planning & Evaluation).

First Semester

• M1 Development Studies 1*
  
• M2 International Economics*
• M3 Macroeconomics of LDCs*
• M11 Regional Policies in LDCs
• M12 Agricultural Economics in LDCs
• M13 Social Security Systems
• M14 Social and Political Context of Economic Development
• M15 Development Cooperation
• M18 Humanities Programme*

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Second Semester

• M4 Development Studies II*
• M5 Public Finance in LDCs*
• M6 Money and Banking in LDCs
• M7 Financial Institutions and their Management
• M8 State-Owned Enterprises/Privatisation
• M9 Public Management
• M10 Regional Integration
• M16 Quantitative Methods of Economics
• M17 Project Planning and Evaluation

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M19 Thesis

The aim of the Thesis Seminar (U1) is to develop the capacity of students, working in groups, to formulate clear and specific research objectives, and to comment and advise each other as they proceed with work on their own theses... more