Program in Economic and Public Policy Management

The Master's Program in Economic and Public Policy Management (PEPPM), the successor to the Master's Program in Policy Management (1995-2008), is a trans-disciplinary program at the University of Tsukuba aimed at young professionals in developing and transi¬tion economies. Since its establishment in 1995 the PPM, re-founded from 2009 as the PEPPM, has benefited from the sponsorship of the Joint Japan/World Bank GraduateScholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP).The latter is a Program established with funding from the Government of Japan and administered by the World Bank Institute. During the lifetime of similar Scholarship Programs at the Inter-Amer¬ican Development Bank and the African Development Bank our Master's Program received their support as well. In 2010 the PEPPM concluded successful negotiations with the Asian Development Bank and, starting from its ninth cohort, we will also receive support from their ADB-JapanScholarship Program (ADB-JSP).

PEPPM is a two-year Program, admit¬ting new participants every two years. Since April 1995 eight cohorts composed of ten to twenty two participants from over thirty different countries have already been admitted to the Program. The ninth cohort, to be selected during 2010, will initiate its activities from April2011.

In order to better fulfill these stated objectives the Program offers two courses, the Course in Economic Policy and the Course in International Public Policy. The former is aimed to those candidates requiring strong quantitative and econometric skills in their professional career while the latter will provide greater emphasis to the international, social and political dimensions of policymaking. It needs to be stressed that the division into two courses, which is in contrast to the former Program in Policy Management that was mostly focused on economics, was decided with the specific goal of fitting a wider group of professionals in developing countries.

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