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International Development with Economics

BSc · The University of Bath · 3 years

International Development with Economics

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The University of Bath

AI IMPACT
MEDIAN PAY, 15 MO£39,500
SATISFACTION83%
CONTINUATION100%
PROFESSIONAL JOBS89%
DESTINATION-WEIGHTEDAI is already used for about 46% of the work its graduates go into (High).

About this course

International development is the field concerned with understanding and addressing global inequality, poverty, and the conditions under which people and societies can flourish. It draws on economics, political science, sociology, geography, and history to analyse why some parts of the world are wealthy while others remain poor, what the consequences of global economic systems are for different populations, and what kinds of policy, aid, trade, and governance interventions actually help. Economics provides the quantitative and theoretical tools that make development analysis rigorous, giving you the frameworks to evaluate whether particular policies work and why. At the University of Bath, the BSc in International Development with Economics is a three-year full-time programme taught within a department that takes a broad social science approach to development questions while grounding th

Where its graduates go

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