EfD-EPRU Research Associate Stephanie Giamporcaro lectured in March 2011 on Sustainable and Responsible Investment for the innovative Mphil in Development Finance launched recently by UCT Graduate School of Business and the Africa Growth Institute.
'It was a great experience to lecture on Sustainable and Responsible Investment to students who could implement what they learned in their professional activities' stresses Stephanie Giamporcaro.
Indeed the Mphil in Development Finance is a degree targeting development finance practitioners, civil servants, staff of development finance institutions, staff of other financial institutions, entrepreneurs, staff of NGOs and staff in the private sector.
Development finance, as a professional discipline, is widely practiced
in major development finance institutions including development banks,
the World Bank, the IMF, the UN organs, regional and other
country-specific development finance institutions, public and private
sector institutions, other financial and non-financial organisations,
international foundations and NGOs. All central governments around the
world frequently use development finance, as a professional discipline,
for the design and implementation of development policies.
Among other core courses such as micro-enterprise finance, international finance for development, quantitative methods in development finance, Africa Growth and UCT GSB integrated a core course on Sustainable and Responsible Investment due to the growing importance of the topic among development finance institutions.