Introduction
MOOC on how local governments, businesses and civil society groups get together to raise income sustainably and improve their lives. Find out more >>
Key Facts & Figures
- Type
- MOOC
- Duration
- 26 hours
- Instruction language
- English
- Mode of instruction
- Online
Start dates for: MOOC Local Economic Development
It is possible to enrol and start with the course any time.
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Taught jointly by ISS and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, this MOOC will answer such questions as:
- Why does economic development take place in some areas of the world and not in others?
- Why doesn’t it happen in your place?
- What prevents people from having the lives they want to live right there?
- Could your region make more of the opportunities of globalization and new technologies?
- Did the promises of decentralization in your country fail to deliver better public services and more responsive governments?
Dr Georgina Gomez
- Email address
- gomez@iss.nl
Facts & Figures
- Fee
This course if free of charge
- Tax
- Not applicable
- Duration
- 26 hours
- Offered by
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Discipline
- Social sciences
- Course type
- MOOC
- Instruction language
- English
- Mode of instruction
- Online
- Funding
private