Inclusive Growth - Governance (IGx-GOV)

Source details

Session No.: OL 24.172
Location: Course conducted online
Date: May 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024 (18 weeks)
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: English
Target Audience: Mid-level to senior officials involved in economic and strategic planning; monitoring and evaluating policy strategies for reducing poverty and inequality; and promoting job creation.
Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience.

Examines the concept of governance and why improving the quality of governance is important to achieve inclusive growth.
Explores linkages between governance and inclusive growth.
Reviews key policies to improve governance, including:
- structural reform,
- automation,
- improving rules and procedures (for fiscal and monetary policies) to limit policy errors.
Addresses human resource policies and capacity building.
Covers effective anti-corruption frameworks to incentivize public officials to make decisions in the best public interest.
Discusses transparency, accountability, and inclusive political institutions to inform and monitor effective governance policymaking.
Highlights examples of governance issues in key policy areas and provides solutions.

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Explain the linkages between governance and inclusive growth.
List key indicators to measure governance and its sub-components such as corruption, and examine how detrimental is corruption to your country.
Summarize policies to improve governance, and explain the main channels through which they operate or function.