Professional Master's Degree

The new relationships between the State and the economy that developed in Brazil, starting in the 1990s, began to require a different profile of government technicians who worked in the economics area than that needed previously. The retreat of the role of the State as a producer of goods and services required its regulation capacity to advance. Having overcome the almost absolute dominance of stabilization policies, the new context will require a more stable currency and openness to foreign countries to define new directions and instruments for industrial, exchange rate, and monetary policies, in addition to reforming the fiscal structure. Furthermore, considering the growing impatience of society with the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the state apparatus, it is clear that public sector technical personnel should receive adequate professional training in order to respond to the challenges of this new phase.

The Master in Public Sector Economics (MESP) is an academic graduate course that preserves academic quality while emphasizing content that closely interests the professional training of its students. MESP is aimed at economists or graduates of related area who exercise professional activities related to the economic domain of public power. In principle, this profile covers a range of specialists such as technicians from the areas of revenue, budget, or internal control, both at the federal level and in other areas of government; public managers, in general; parliamentary advisors, technical personnel associated with the Audit Courts, bodies of the judiciary, the Public Prosecutor's Office, etc.

The aim of the Master in Public Sector Economics is to provide professionals with solid training in chosen topics of modern public sector economic theory and apply them to the analysis of current issues of government policy.

For more information see http://mesp.unb.br/

The Master in Economic Management of the Environment (Master in GEMA) has been part of the Graduate Program in Economics (PPG/ECO) since 1998 when it was approved by the Teaching, Research and Outreach Council of the University of Brasilia (ECE/UNB). This was the first professional master's degree approved at UnB.

The doctoral professors who teach in the Master in GEMA program are members of the Center for Studies in Economics, Environment and Agriculture (CEEMA/ECO/UNB) and PPG/ECO with vast scientific production related to themes like environmental economics, ecological economics and agricultural economics.

Ten courses make up the curriculum of the Master in GEMA program, for a total of 32 credits. In all the courses, the emphasis is on economic concepts essential for the analysis of environmental problems, especially in topics related to biological diversity, climate change, water resources, and solid waste, among others.

In addition to course credits, students in this program must also prepare a master's dissertation to be submitted to an academic panel. Over the last 20 years, more than 200 dissertations have been approved in the Master in GEMA program.

Candidates for the Master in GEMA degree are predominantly technicians from the public sector (federal, state, and district) and from the third sector. Nevertheless, numerous professionals linked to the private sector have also obtained their Master's in GEMA. Most candidates to the Master in GEMA program have bachelor's degrees in biology, engineering, forestry engineering, economics, and law.

Various professionals who have obtained their Master's degree in Economics – Economic Management of the Environment - have continued their studies in doctoral programs, whether at PPG/ECO or in other Brazilian or foreign universities. A little more than two dozen of them work as teachers in higher education institutions in Brazil.

More information at http://www.ceemaunb.com

The current socioeconomic context is characterized by increasing need for changes in organizations. Because of the great technological advances and of the growing economic integration present in several fields, public managers are forced to rethink how their organizations are managed.
When trying to infer the major changes that will occur in organizations in the coming years, it is difficult to find a common path, whether in terms of building models or of creating policies and guidelines that are more suited to this new environment. However, one finding is unanimous: the major transformations that must occur in terms of organizational management will be related to how organizations deal with their most valuable asset, i.e., their staff. Hence the imperative need for ongoing training and updating of human resources in the various sectors.
In this context, in order to obtain greater scientificity when conducting projects related to public spending, the present work proposes a training project through actions part of a graduate-level course in economics, with public finance as its area of concentration.