The programme aims to provide a rigorous training in economic analysis, empirical methods, and quantitative techniques for fresh or recent university graduates and young professionals. Graduates should be able to pursue further work at the PhD level or take up positions as analysts, policy researchers, investment strategists and consultants in multinational corporations, investment banks, trade associations, government bodies and policy research institutes.

Upon successful completion of this Programme, students should be able to:

1. Evaluate economic issues or policies from a global perspective based on economic theories and empirical evidence and seek for new and creative solutions for existing economic issues.
2. Locate, extract, and analyze economic data from various sources necessary for decision making.
3. Conduct economic analysis using theoretical and econometric techniques and search for opportunities to apply innovative techniques to enrich the conventional wisdom.
4. Interpret results from the existing literature or other researchers and thereby discover new research possibilities.