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Successful economic development helps to support vibrant communities. Many socio-cultural, institutional, political, and economic processes can promote—or retard—progress toward self-sufficiency and vitality. The issues at the heart of the economic and community development concentration are such factors as per capita income and access to water, land, health, education, and other material and non-material resources. The challenge for planners, policy analysts, managers, advocates, and others interested in community development is to discover and implement policies and programs that directly or indirectly raise or more equitably distribute income and resources.
Students interested in economic and community development have substantial flexibility in how they meet the concentration requirements. In addition to the core courses in economics, students can examine housing policy, international economic policy, or natural resources in international development, among many other possibilities.
Below is just a small sampling of the dozens of courses related to economic and community development. You can find additional ideas on the concentration sheet.
Students interested in economic and community development may be interested in the work of the following Humphrey School research centers and policy areas:
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