Training Catalog Course Details

Mid-level to senior officials involved in economic and strategic planning; monitoring and evaluating strategies and policies to tackle poverty and inequality; address climate change; and promote job creation.  

Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or social sciences or equivalent experience. It is recommended that applicants complete the online Inclusive Growth (IGx) course, or any subset of modules of the IGx online course (e.g. Inclusive Growth – Concepts and Indicators (IGx-CI), Inclusive Growth – Fiscal Policy (IGx-FP), Inclusive Growth – Governance (IGx-GOV), Inclusive Growth – Climate Change (IGx-CC), and Inclusive Growth – Labor Markets, Gender, and Technology (IGx-LMGT)).

This course, presented by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development, is designed to increase participants’ understanding of the concepts of inclusive growth and give them analytical and operational tools to evaluate, measure and monitor how macroeconomic policies can affect growth, poverty, inequality and job creation. Lectures introduce the basic concepts of inclusive growth, with a special focus on long-term sustainability, and workshops offer participants an opportunity to apply the concepts and think about the design of inclusive growth strategies, drawing from country case studies.

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