## Inclusive Growth (IGx)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 24.168
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview and logistics
- Title: Inclusive Growth (IGx)
- Session No.: OL 24.168
- Deadline passed
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Provider: IMF's Institute for Capacity Development
- Qualifications and access requirements:
  - Expected qualifications: degree in economics or equivalent experience.
  - Technical requirements: access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.
- Target audience:
  - Mid-level to senior officials involved in economic and strategic planning;
  - Officials monitoring and evaluating policy strategies for reducing poverty and inequality;
  - Officials promoting job creation.

### Course purpose and themes
- Objective: Broaden participants' understanding of the relationship between macroeconomic policies and reforms, competitiveness, and growth, with emphasis on translating growth into poverty reduction and broad-based improvements in living standards.
- Analytical scope:
  - Examine micro and macro policies to promote economic growth, employment growth and equitable income distribution.
  - Interpret empirical links between growth, employment and income distribution through multiple theoretical lenses:
    - Traditional approaches emphasizing capital accumulation and productivity growth via knowledge acquisition.
    - Recent non-aggregative approaches emphasizing resource misallocation and imperfections in credit and government institutions.
- Key topics covered:
  - Employment-growth linkages.
  - Impact of policies, institutions, and regulations on employment and growth.
  - Strategies for fostering inclusive growth.
  - Role of fiscal policy in supporting inclusive growth, including best practices for designing tax policies and expenditure programs to foster inclusion.
  - Assessment of labor market inclusiveness, including gender perspectives and the effects of technological change on inclusion.
  - Importance of good governance for inclusive growth, selection of governance quality indicators, and policies to improve governance.
  - Key risks to sustainable and inclusive growth related to climate change and design of policy mixes for mitigation and adaptation.

### Methods, tools, and regional relevance
- Pedagogy and materials:
  - Course will draw on theory, cross-country empirical studies, and case studies from several regions.
  - Workshops provide hands-on opportunities to apply empirical and spreadsheet-based tools to analyze poverty and inequality measures, unemployment trends, and employment impacts of labor market policies.
  - Workshops enable discussion and analysis of the impact of macro policies on equality, employment, and growth in participants' own country.
  - Country case studies used in workshops/lectures will be adapted to the region where the course is being delivered to increase relevance.

### Learning outcomes (upon completion)
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 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/2024/igxol24-168_