GSPP Courses

The MDP Capstone Experience aims to guide students to successfully complete their capstone (final project or master's thesis) milestone from the Master of Development Practice (MDP) program. The course aims to help students create an outstanding final project or master's thesis, and to provide an appropriate scaffolding. Students will reflect on their pedagogical and professional journey during the MDP program. One can expect to acquire research-related skills, such as writing a proposal, designing a research project, and writing a literature…

The MDP Capstone Experience aims to guide students to successfully complete their capstone (final project or master's thesis) milestone from the Master of Development Practice (MDP) program. The course aims to help students create an outstanding final project or master's thesis, and to provide an appropriate scaffolding. Students will reflect on their pedagogical and professional journey during the MDP program. One can expect to acquire research-related skills, such as writing a proposal, designing a research project, and writing a literature…

Both developing and developed countries living in evolving economies where new innovations introduce new industries and change the economies and lives of these populations. Sustainable development education, especially in professional schools, should provide students with understanding and tools to analyze the innovation process and the implementation of innovations by new supply chains. Understanding the processes that lead to innovation and then the design of supply chains requires theoretical and conceptual education as well as practical analysis of existing supply chains.…

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This course will introduce concepts in natural resource management. Segment 1 will cover basic modeling, techniques, and methodology in natural resource mamangement and sustainability. Segment 2 will address genetic resources and agriculture. Segment 3 will cover principles of natural resource management, namely water and air, in the development context. Segment 4 profides an overview of major concepts in the conservation of biodiversity. Students are expected to present research reports based on case studies.

This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of estimation, prediction, and hypothesis testing. The course will focus on impact evaluation theory and methods and will explore the variety of tools available for rigorously measuring the impact of development programs on poverty.

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Law, Politics, and Policymaking will introduce students to principles of law, the mechanisms of politics, political economy, and policymaking delving into fundamentals of business, as well as environmental, international, and human rights law in the context of development. This course will provide students with insights into real-world contexts in which sustainable development practice takes place. It will consist of case studies of political economic and legal analysis.

This three-segment course starts with critical evaluation of literature and methods for communal natural resource management, followed by a segment that emphasizes leadership skills and conflict resolution approaches for development. The third segment will address issues of conflict and policymaking in a global context and provide the institutional perspective of development organizations and strategies.

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The focus of the course is on rigorous analysis of issues in development economics from a microeconomics lens. We take a threefold approach to each topic: we examine, in turn, theory, evidence, and policy. Yet the goal of the course is not simply to have you learn facts and theories about poor countries-instead, the goal is that you learn, hands-on, how economists approach problems of development. As such, the bulk of the course will be devoted to in-depth analysis of …

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This course will bridge the gap between development theory and its application by sharing the challenges that arise from: i) the implementation of projects and programs supported by international financing institutions like IFAD; and ii) the assessment of their impact. Since the mandate of IFAD is to focus on fighting rural poverty, the seminar will cover a range of topics regarding: i) sectoral/sub-sectoral domains such as rural development, natural resource management, and micro-finance; ii) vulnerable social groups such as…