Inclusive Growth - Governance (IGx-GOV)

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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
Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience

Examines the concept of governance and why improving the quality of governance is important for achieving inclusive growth.
Explores linkages between governance and inclusive growth.
Reviews key policies to improve governance, including:
- Structural reform
- Automation
- Improving rules and procedures (for fiscal and monetary policies) to limit policy errors
Addresses human resource policies and capacity building.
Reviews effective anti-corruption frameworks to incentivize public officials to make decisions in the best public interest.
Covers transparency, accountability, and inclusive political institutions to inform and monitor effective governance policymaking.
Highlights examples of governance issues in key policy areas and provides solutions.

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Explain the linkages between governance and inclusive growth.
List key indicators to measure governance and its sub-components such as corruption, and examine how detrimental is corruption to your country.
Summarize policies to improve governance, and explain the main channels through which they operate or function.