Dalhousie University

Economics - The scientific study of choices in regard to the alternative uses of scarce resources to satisfy wants. So what does that mean? It means that economists study the needs of individuals and society and work to find the best methods of sharing and distributing these resources. The demand for food and agricultural products domestically and world-wide is growing, and as such the need for economic understanding of the demand for food and the supply of food is crucial. You will be studying economic factors and developing solutions related to these types of issues.

Business practices touch so many areas of our world today and this unique program offers graduates a very important edge in our marketplace. This is where science and management practices converge to solve problems and capture economics opportunities in our natural world. This unique program means you don’t have to choose between science business - you can do both.

This is a two-year professional course of study that combines graduate-level coursework in economics with a number of graduate courses in cognate disciplines (underlining the interdisciplinary nature of development) and the completion of a master's thesis. The MDE focuses on economic progress in poor countries and poor regions of wealthy countries such as Canada. The MDE prepares students for professional policy-analysis in the public or private sectors in Canada or abroad.