MSc in Emerging Economies and International Development

Key Benefits

• Enjoy a distinctive approach to development that focuses on middle-income countries.
• Focus your studies on development theory and practice.
• Learn from a multidisciplinary course taught by experts in international development, economics, politics, anthropology, sociology and history.
• Choose from an extensive selection of optional modules, spanning research methods, development practice, gender, social policy, poverty and inequality, and region-specific teaching. Taught by a truly international department of academics with experience from around the world.

Program Outcome

During this Emerging Economies and International Development MSc, you’ll combine distinct disciplinary training on subjects like development theory and practice, poverty and inequality, gender, and social policy with applied case studies on specific middle-income countries and regions.

It’s your opportunity to explore key questions relating to international development. You’ll learn why some countries grow fast while others stagnate, and why some countries are more equal than others. You’ll study the development strategies that exist at national and international levels, and explore the historical developments that influence contemporary problems and solutions. You’ll discover how the world is reconfigured by changes in geopolitical relations and question whether economic growth is the main development goal or problem.

By focusing on middle-income countries, you’ll get the chance to think through successes and failures, problems and solutions of a world that actively seeks social, political and economic change.

The multidisciplinary syllabus of this Emerging Economies and International Development MSc straddles a range of disciplines including politics, anthropology, sociology, economics, and history. The curriculum provides intellectual perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and is taught by a truly diverse teaching body of experts from across the world.

To begin, you will build your knowledge of development theory and practice relevant to middle-income countries. You’ll develop your research skills and gain a wider understanding of specific topics of analysis, such as social justice, inequality, labour, trade and markets, institutions and politics.

You will also get the opportunity to explore your perspective of development through a list of optional modules. You’re invited to mix and match modules that cover research methods, development topics, development practice and specific regions to specialise further.

When you study this Emerging Economies and International Development MSc, you’ll join a dynamic and innovative department that works closely with students to develop expertise in the field of international development and in middle-income countries that can be particularly attractive to the labour market.

And thanks to our location in the heart of London, you can benefit from our close links with NGOs, think tanks, charities, and research organisations, as well as other Universities and the cultural sector.

You will graduate with a deeper knowledge of key contemporary issues, regional expertise, an understanding of research methods and a range of critical skills that you can apply in the development sector.

Would you prefer to focus more on the political economy of emerging markets, including states, markets and the institutional basis of growth? If so, take a look at our Political Economy of Emerging Markets MSc.