Universidad Nacional De Jose C. Paz (UNPAZ)
MASTER IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
José C. Paz, Argentina
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2027
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: Master in Regional Economic Development at the National University of José Clemente Paz (UNPAZ) in José C. Paz provides multidisciplinary, theory‑and‑practice training on economic development agendas at national and regional levels. The programme examines economic visions and debates, the role of the state and policy instruments, productive, trade, and financial strategies, and national–regional integration. It aims to build capacity for design, planning, management, and evaluation of development policies, programmes, and projects. It teaches quantitative and qualitative research methods, comparative diagnosis, and policy evaluation, and fosters academic exchange to study historical experiences, theories, concepts, and institutional relationships that shape regional development.
Career Outcomes: Graduates may pursue roles in public policy, economic planning, research, and project management: regional development planner, public policy analyst/advisor, economic development officer, programme manager, programme evaluator, researcher, economic consultant, impact evaluator, urban and regional planner, or research analyst in NGOs, government agencies, provincial or national administrations, multilateral institutions, and the private sector, working on policy design, planning, evaluation, regional integration, trade strategy, and project implementation. These roles use skills in policy analysis, programme evaluation, quantitative methods, and institutional analysis.
The master's degree is a training space oriented to the agendas of economic development, and its challenges, both at the national level and in its articulation with a regional agenda. It is proposed, in the macro of the multiplicity of existing approaches, to provide knowledge that allows knowing and contrasting different economic visions and debates in aspects such as the role of the state and its policy instruments, as well as the different productive, commercial, and financial strategies national and regional integration. It does so from a multidisciplinary approach and especially from a theoretical-practical nature, from delving into specific historical experiences and reflecting on their results.
Within this framework, the following objectives are proposed:
Contribute to the training of high-level resources with capacities to apply the theoretical and empirical knowledge acquired for the development of activities for the design, planning, management, and evaluation of policies, programs, and actions aimed at promoting economic development at the regional level.
Provide methodologies, techniques, and tools of inquiry and quantitative and qualitative for the analysis of economic development processes in the region, through the performance of comparative studies, diagnoses, and evaluation of policies, programs, and projects.
Consolidate an academic space for exchange and reflection on the challenges of economic development in the regional context that contributes to the postgraduate training of professionals prepared for the design of public policy strategies for development.
To train in the knowledge of the main theories, concepts, and relationships necessary to understand and analyze the problems of economic development, from a historical and critical perspective.
