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Professional Masters
SOAS, University of London
Full Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
The MSc Development Economics with Work Placement Year is the flagship Master's programme offered by the SOAS Economics Department.It combines the two core intellectual traditions nurtured for decades in our unique department: a pluralist approach to economics and a focus on real-world development issues. If you are interested in understanding how the global economy works, what economic challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face, and what to do about intensifying inequalities and ecological breakdown, this degree is for you.In macroeconomics, you will engage with different schools of macroeconomic thought on issues like inflation, unemployment, inequality, money creation, climate change and macroeconomic policy. In microeconomics, different theoretical perspectives on issues like market failures, risk, market structures and production are compared and contrasted. In development economics, you are introduced to economic theories and policies for development through a historical, pluralist and decolonial approach.
At SOAS University of London, postgraduate students are encouraged to challenge the status quo and think globally. SOAS ...
