“Does having women in power empower women per se?” This was the bold question put to Helen Clark, former chief of UNDP, during a one-hour debate co-hosted by UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University — and it was a question that got a suitably robust response! PhD fellow Ibrahima Kaba, our moderator for the afternoon, peppered and quizzed Ms. Clark about prospects for Africa, the future of the UN, and the viability of the Sustainable Development Goals. Given her recent run to be th...
Emerging Markets is the latest specialisation in the bachelor’s programmes in International Business and Economics and Business Economics at Maastricht University. New as it may be, it is already popular. It has even spurred the development of a follow-up programme to be launched in September 2018: the Master in Economics and Strategy in Emerging Markets. “Emerging economies are changing the world radically,” says Dr. Kaj Thomsson, coordinator of the bachelor’s specialisation. “This ...
Maastricht University (UM) celebrated the opening of the academic year on Monday 4 September 2017 by asking the question: ‘Can academics change the world?’ During the morning symposium, focusing on the action research approach in academic disciplines, six (all female) students (three Master’s and three PhD fellows) pitched their ideas for a project involving academic entrepreneurship. In the Master’s category, the award went to Nrupaja Bhide, who just graduated from UNU-MERIT’s Master̵...