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  "title": "Inclusive Growth - Labor Markets Gender and Technology",
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  "summary": "Inclusive Growth - Labor Markets Gender and Technology 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": "2025-02-10",
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      "heading": "Training program overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.173\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024 (18 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and themes",
      "content": "- The course examines inclusive growth from a labor market perspective.\n- Key themes include:\n  - The role of an inclusive labor market in individual economic well-being and in helping the economy operate more efficiently.\n  - Determinants of labor market outcomes, including discrimination and how it could be addressed.\n  - How artificial intelligence and technological advancements affect labor market inclusivity and possible policy options to steer technological progress toward greater inclusivity.\n  - Gender discrimination, potential gains of gender inclusion, and policy measures to reduce multiple dimensions of the gender gap.\n- Other topics:\n  - Consequences of informality and duality in the labor market.\n  - Interactions between individual attributes, the economic cycle, shocks, and technology in shaping labor market outcomes.\n  - Tradeoffs between equity and efficiency that policymakers need to weigh when enhancing inclusiveness."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe what it means for a labor market to be inclusive.\n- Interpret indicators of labor market inclusiveness.\n- Examine determinants of labor market outcomes, including an individual's attributes, the economic cycle, shocks, and technology.\n- Investigate the consequences of informality and duality in the labor market.\n- Analyze gender inequality and its negative economic implications.\n- Discuss what policy makers can do to enhance inclusiveness while weighing possible tradeoffs between equity and efficiency."
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    "Session No.: OL 24.173",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024 (18 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "The course examines inclusive growth from a labor market perspective.",
    "Key themes include:",
    "Other topics:",
    "Describe what it means for a labor market to be inclusive.",
    "Interpret indicators of labor market inclusiveness.",
    "Examine determinants of labor market outcomes, including an individual's attributes, the economic cycle, shocks, and technology.",
    "Investigate the consequences of informality and duality in the labor market.",
    "Analyze gender inequality and its negative economic implications.",
    "Discuss what policy makers can do to enhance inclusiveness while weighing possible tradeoffs between equity and efficiency."
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