## Inclusive Growth (IGx)

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**Canonical URL:** [Inclusive Growth (IGx)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2023/igxol23-158)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 23.158
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 15, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program overview
- Offered by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development as an online training course.
- Session No.: OL 23.158.
- Location: Course conducted online.
- Date: May 15, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks).
- Delivery Method: Online Training.
- Primary Language: English.
- Deadline passed.

### 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.
  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.

### Course description — scope and approach
- Purpose:
  - Broaden participants' understanding of the relationship between macroeconomic policies and reforms, competitiveness, and growth.
- Context:
  - Responds to concerns about poor growth prospects, high unemployment, and inequities in income and opportunities.
- Analytical approaches:
  - Examines micro and macro policies to promote economic growth, employment growth and equitable income distribution.
  - Addresses traditional approaches emphasizing capital accumulation and productivity growth through knowledge acquisition.
  - Addresses recent non-aggregative approaches emphasizing misallocation of resources and imperfections in credit and government institutions.
  - Interprets empirical links between growth, employment and income distribution in light of these different models.
- Policy focus:
  - Highlights critical policies that translate economic growth into poverty reduction and broad-based improvements in living standards.
- Methods:
  - Draws on theory, cross-country empirical studies, and case studies of experiences in several regions.
  - Country case studies are adapted to the region where the course is being delivered to increase relevance.

### Key topics and practical components
- Key topics the course will cover include:
  - (i) employment-growth linkages;
  - (ii) impact of policies, institutions, and regulations on employment and growth;
  - (iii) strategies for fostering inclusive growth.
- 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 — learning outcomes
- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
  - 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)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2023/igxol23-158_