Second Edition of the PEP-Laval Intensive Graduate School in Development Economics

In collaboration with Université Laval, the PEP team is offering a new edition of the PEP School on “Development Economics”, in Quebec City, Canada, in 2012.

• A preliminary distance training component will be provided in May, 2012.
• The actual training workshop will take place in Quebec City, from June 3 to June 23, 2012.
• Teaching and material will be dispensed in English - although teaching staff are also proficient in French.

The PEP-Laval intensive graduate school in development economics provides flexible, advanced and accelerated training in the understanding and promotion of economic development. It addresses the local and global need for such training expressed by students and researchers around the world, who wish to conduct rigorous scientific research on issues related to poverty, economic and human development.

An outstanding feature of this program is that it is based on training material developed in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and other international organizations, and that it uses analytical tools and techniques that have been developed by the School’s own teaching team and that are now valued worldwide by development practitioners and analysts.

This includes CGE models, as well as original software and computer programs, such as the well-known Distributive Analysis/Analyse Distributive (DAD) software and the Stata-compatible Distributive Analysis for Stata Package (DASP).

The program offers three separate courses:

• Impact Evaluation : June 3 - June 9, 2012
• Measuring and Alleviating Poverty  : June 10 – June 16, 2012
• Development Policy Modelling :  June 17 – June 23, 2012

This second edition of the PEP-Laval intensive graduate school in development economics will be held at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

The courses will be taught in English, English language proficiency is thus required.
Upon completion of each of these courses, participants will receive a certificate of continued education by Université Laval. Under certain conditions, the courses can also be credited towards completion of a University degree program.

To find out all there is to know about the course content, application requirements and procedure, costs, etc., visit the PEP website at: http://www.pep-net.org/events/pep-schools/pep-laval-intensive-graduate-school-in-development-economics/courses-summer-2011/.

We would greatly appreciate if you could circulate the announcement in your network and/or forward it to other potentially interested recipients.

Thank you!

The PEP team

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