rachigungho

I've been seriously spending the last few days looking at graduate study options and also work opportunities, and found that I keep stumbling into GradCafe posts. All the replies seemed helpful and enlightening, so I thought I'd give it a try. I am about to go into the final year of my 3-year Bachelor of Arts (in Sociology, Politics and International Relations) at the University of Melbourne. I will graduate by June of next year, and I am trying to figure out where I can go from here. I want to go into Development, but as I understand it, that particular field of study is econ-heavy, whereas I have no economics background whatsoever. My long-term goal is to go into Indonesian government or international governance and work to alleviate poverty, and so far as I can see Development is the way to go! I have so far been looking at a number of MPAs and MPPs and I'm convinced that I will never get into either because I have no economics background. Is there really no way that I can get into these programs? Should I be pursuing a different course? I guess maybe more urgently, should I be looking for a graduate study option or should I be looking for work? It's problematic that graduate schools require you to have worked, since where I'm from, without connections, you can't get anywhere at all unless you're properly educated... What should I be doing? This summer I will be interning at an international affairs research institute, in the hopes that it will help me clarify what field I should go into in the future, and perhaps help me break into the whole international development thing/scene/workforce. Any thoughts? My questions, again are: - Should I be pursuing graduate study or work at this point? - What kind of work / What kind of graduate program should I be looking at? - What is the difference between an MPA and an MPP? - Am I doomed to never take an MPA because of my lack of Econ? Thank you for taking the time to look this through--heaps of thanks in advance for taking the time to reply.