Training Catalog Session Details

Mid-level to senior officials¿involved in economic and strategic planning; monitoring and evaluating strategies and policies to tackle e 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 strongly recommended that applicants complete the online¿Inclusive Growth¿(IGx)¿course,¿the¿online¿Financial Development and Financial Inclusion (FDFIx) course.

This course, which is presented by the Institute for Capacity Development (ICD), is designed to¿increase participants’ understanding of inclusive growth and give them analytical and operational tools to evaluate, measure, and monitor how macroeconomic policies can affect growth,¿climate change,¿poverty, inequality, and job creation.  It also covers the challenges to inclusion from longer-term structural trends such as demographics and climate change. Lectures introduce the basic concepts of inclusive growth, with a special focus on long-term sustainability, while workshops offer participants an opportunity to apply the concepts and think about the design of inclusive growth strategies, drawing from country case studies.