Introduction
MOOC on how local governments, businesses and civil society groups get together to raise income sustainably and improve their lives. Find out more >>
Key Facts & Figures
- Type
- MOOC
- Duration
- 26 hours
- Instruction language
- English
- Mode of instruction
- Online
Start dates
It is possible to enrol and start with the course any time.

Taught jointly by ISS and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, this MOOC will answer such questions as:
- Why does economic development take place in some areas of the world and not in others?
- Why doesn’t it happen in your place?
- What prevents people from having the lives they want to live right there?
- Could your region make more of the opportunities of globalization and new technologies?
- Did the promises of decentralization in your country fail to deliver better public services and more responsive governments?
Dr Georgina Gomez

- Email address
- gomez@iss.nl
Facts & Figures
- Fee
This course if free of charge
- Tax
- Not applicable
- Duration
- 26 hours
- Offered by
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Discipline
- Social sciences
- Course type
- MOOC
- Instruction language
- English
- Mode of instruction
- Online
- Funding
private