Profilo personale: Alberto Lanzavecchia

Prof. Alberto Lanzavecchia

This course provides an in-depth understanding of microfinance's role in local development, integrating sustainability (people and planet), business practices, and corporate finance (profits).

Categoria A.A. 2025 - 2026 / Corsi di laurea magistrale / LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Prof.s Alberto Lanzavecchia & Andrea Pettrachin

The module is organized in three units:
Unit A: Economic Migration and Local Policies – 14 hours
Unit B: Microfinance for Development - 20 hours
Unit C: Microfinance Seminars - 8 hours

The course requires: basic knowledge of development economics and related terminology; basic terms in banking; curiosity for issues related to microfinance, international migration, and the nexus between migration, development and microfinance; interest in group work and critical discussions.

Categoria A.A. 2024 - 2025 / Corsi di laurea magistrale / LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

The course aims to provide in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of international migration and local migration policies; role of microfinance for the local development, and the linkages between international migration, microfinance and processes of local development, taking into account the analytical frameworks adopted by contemporary studies on international migration, microfinance and development.
Second part of the course present the tools of microfinance – a market-based approach for leveraging community assets towards social and economic inclusion - and then discuss whether it can be right approach, if applied properly, to generate positive economic outcomes at local level, such as employment generation, increase in income, consumption and assets ownership etc.

Categoria A.A. 2023 - 2024 / Corsi di laurea magistrale / LOCAL DEVELOPMENT