MSc in globalisation and development
Programme Content
The Master in Globalisation and Development approaches development as the outcome of intensifying global-to-local-to-global interactions . It introduces a multi-disciplinary perspective to analyse opportunities and threats to poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability associated with these interactions in low and middle- income countries at both the national and local levels .
Most of our students are engaged ( or aspire to become engaged ) in interventions , ( social ) businesse s , policy or advocacy that promote inclusive and sustainable development , whether as professionals or as researchers .
Applicants to this Master must show a keen interest in challenges for poverty reduction and sustainability related to economic and financial globalisation , mobility and migration , value chains and / or climate change and environmental crises .
The objective of the Master programme is to provide these students with a solid understanding of the current global development context in all of its dimensions ( worldwide markets for goods and services , capital and labour / migration , the planetary challenge of sustainable development in this era of environmental crisis / climate change ). It offers insight and tools with which to analyse and improve the impact of the global context on local development and poverty alleviation in the global South and vice versa . As such due consideration is given to the complexity of local – global interactions in the multifaceted arenas of globalisation .
Successful students will be able to identify the opportunities of the evolving global context , in addition to assessing and remedying the risks and threats associated with the globalisation of the sustainable development challenge . They will also be able to identify and assess policy and programme interventions for more effective and adequate local , national and global development .
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