## Inclusive Growth (IGx)

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**Canonical URL:** [Inclusive Growth (IGx)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2021/igxol21-160)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 21.160
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: September 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021 (18 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.

### Course logistics
- Session No.: OL 21.160
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: September 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021 (18 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Deadline status: Deadline passed

### Course description and analytical focus
- The course, offered by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development, broadens participants' understanding of the relationship between macroeconomic policies and reforms, competitiveness, and growth.
- It addresses concerns about poor growth prospects, high unemployment, and inequities in income and opportunities.
- Focus areas include micro and macro policies to promote:
  - economic growth,
  - employment growth,
  - equitable income distribution.
- Analytical approaches covered:
  - Traditional approaches emphasizing capital accumulation and productivity growth through knowledge acquisition.
  - Recent non-aggregative approaches emphasizing misallocation of resources and imperfections in credit and government institutions.
- The course interprets empirical links between growth, employment, and income distribution in light of these models.
- Emphasis on the role of policies that translate economic growth into poverty reduction and broad-based improvements in living standards.

### Key topics and practical components
- Core topics:
  - (i) employment-growth linkages;
  - (ii) impact of policies, institutions, and regulations on employment and growth;
  - (iii) strategies for fostering inclusive growth.
- Methodology:
  - Draws on theory, cross-country empirical studies, and regional case studies.
  - Country case studies adapted to the region where the course is delivered to increase relevance.
- Workshops:
  - Apply empirical and spreadsheet-based tools to analyze poverty and inequality measures and unemployment trends.
  - Analyze the employment impact of labor market policies.
  - Discuss and analyze the impact of macro policies on equality, employment, and growth in participants' own countries.

### Course objectives (upon completion)
- Define the concept of inclusive growth and its many dimensions, outline a framework to systematically analyze inclusive growth issues, and establish the links between growth and inclusion.
- Measure the extent to which a country has achieved inclusive growth, by using a wide range of indicators.
- Explain the role of fiscal policy in supporting inclusive growth and highlight best practices for designing tax policies and expenditure programs to foster inclusion.
- Assess inclusiveness of the labor market, including from a gender perspective; describe how advances in technology may affect inclusion in the labor market; and examine labor market and gender-related policies and their implementation challenges and trade-offs.
- Explain why good governance is important for inclusive growth, select key indicators to measure the quality of governance and summarize the policies to improve it.
- Identify the key risks to sustainable and inclusive growth related to climate change; design the most appropriate policy mix to address climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2021/igxol21-160_