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Interview with Andrés Mideros Mora, Vice-Minister of Ecuador
17 March 2015
Ecuador’s new ‘Vice-Minister, Technical Secretary for the Eradication of Poverty’, Andrés Mideros Mora, is an MPP alumnus and current PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT. In this brief interview, we ask how his studies in Maastricht helped his career, about the background to his...
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Economists Facing Climate Change: The New Poverty Trap
27 January 2015
Ahead of the UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) set for December 2015, Prof. Shyama V. Ramani was asked to give a lecture as part of the “Economists Facing Climate Change” series. Here she explains the links between poverty and climate change: what the problems are and how we — ...
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Preparing Young Professionals for Rural Innovation
22 January 2015
The challenges faced by rural communities — and the actors who engage with them — change over time. Therefore we need to regularly adapt our ideas on the role, meaning and dynamics of “rural innovation”. The dynamics of rural innovation in the early 21st centur...
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MPP Graduates Honoured at Maastricht Ceremony
21 January 2015
Two graduates from our Master’s programme in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP) were honoured at Maastricht University’s 39th anniversary ceremony on Friday 16 January 2015. Here they share their background stories and hopes for the future. Best Master’s thesis 2014...
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Innovation & Development: Going to Mars and More
18 December 2014
Last week NASA tested its latest spacecraft, the Orion, at a cost of US$370m. The perfect test flight brought the USA one step closer to a manned mission to Mars, now scheduled for 2030. Conquering this new ‘frontier’ says a lot about a country, yet this and other kinds of...
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Microsimulation Modelling Comes to Maastricht
29 October 2014
Microsimulations are extremely important for testing various policies: from environment to health, tax-benefits to transport. Our recent conference covered the state-of-the-art in behavioural, spatial and static microsimulation thanks to the contributions of experts from Europe and be...
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Top Ranking for MPP Programme
14 July 2014
It is the only master’s programme in the world where graduates receive a degree from both the United Nations University (UNU) and Maastricht University (UM): Public Policy and Human Development (MPP). The programme was awarded the top position in this year’s guide to master’s programm...
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Lebanon: Playing the Good Host?
09 July 2014
Refugees are set to make up a third of Lebanon’s population by late 2014. But the UN’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is massively underfunded in the country, forcing it to do more with less. In this blog post, MPP Master’s student Alessandro Pezzano shares his first experie...
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Higher Education: A Key Development Need for Refugees
03 July 2014
In our third blog post for World Refugee Day, we learn why higher education is important to refugees and why this kind of provision deserves greater political and academic attention. World Refugee Day marks a global recognition of those who have been forced to leave their homes to fin...
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