Inclusive Growth (IG)

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Mid-level to senior officials involved in:
- economic and strategic planning
- monitoring and evaluating strategies and policies to tackle poverty and inequality
- addressing climate change
- promoting 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 and the online Financial Development and Financial Inclusion (FDFIx) course.

Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development (ICD).
Designed to increase participants’ understanding of inclusive growth and provide analytical and operational tools to evaluate, measure, and monitor how macroeconomic policies can affect:
- growth
- climate change
- poverty
- inequality
- job creation
Covers challenges to inclusion from longer-term structural trends such as demographics and climate change.
Lectures introduce basic concepts of inclusive growth with a special focus on long-term sustainability.
Workshops allow participants to apply concepts and design inclusive growth strategies using country case studies.

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

Interpret measures of poverty and inequality.
Analyze the role of macroeconomic policies in supporting growth, tackling climate change, promoting equality, and reducing poverty.
Identify obstacles to inclusive growth and prioritize reforms.
Design an inclusive growth strategy for their own country.