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  "title": "Inclusive Growth (IGx)",
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  "summary": "Inclusive Growth Training Program 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.",
  "publishDate": "2024-05-31",
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      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Offered by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development as an online training course.\n- Session No.: OL 23.158.\n- Location: Course conducted online.\n- Date: May 15, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks).\n- Delivery Method: Online Training.\n- Primary Language: English.\n- Deadline passed."
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - 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.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and approach",
      "content": "- Purpose:\n  - Broaden participants' understanding of the relationship between macroeconomic policies and reforms, competitiveness, and growth.\n- Context:\n  - Responds to concerns about poor growth prospects, high unemployment, and inequities in income and opportunities.\n- Analytical approaches:\n  - Examines micro and macro policies to promote economic growth, employment growth and equitable income distribution.\n  - Addresses traditional approaches emphasizing capital accumulation and productivity growth through knowledge acquisition.\n  - Addresses recent non-aggregative approaches emphasizing misallocation of resources and imperfections in credit and government institutions.\n  - Interprets empirical links between growth, employment and income distribution in light of these different models.\n- Policy focus:\n  - Highlights critical policies that translate economic growth into poverty reduction and broad-based improvements in living standards.\n- Methods:\n  - Draws on theory, cross-country empirical studies, and case studies of experiences in several regions.\n  - Country case studies are adapted to the region where the course is being delivered to increase relevance."
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    {
      "heading": "Key topics and practical components",
      "content": "- Key topics the course will cover include:\n  - (i) employment-growth linkages;\n  - (ii) impact of policies, institutions, and regulations on employment and growth;\n  - (iii) strategies for fostering inclusive growth.\n- Workshops:\n  - Apply empirical and spreadsheet-based tools to analyze poverty and inequality measures and unemployment trends.\n  - Analyze the employment impact of labor market policies.\n  - Discuss and analyze the impact of macro policies on equality, employment, and growth in participants' own countries."
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      "heading": "Course objectives — learning outcomes",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - 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.\n  - Measure the extent to which a country has achieved inclusive growth, by using a wide range of indicators.\n  - Explain the role of fiscal policy in supporting inclusive growth and highlight best practices for designing tax policies and expenditure programs to foster inclusion.\n  - 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.\n  - 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.\n  - 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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