## Inclusive Growth - Governance (IGx-GOV)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Inclusive Growth - Governance (IGx-GOV)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/igx-govol26-165)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 26.165
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Apply online by April 1, 2027 Deadline extended

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### Program Overview
- Training Program: Inclusive Growth - Governance
- Session No.: OL 26.165
- Duration: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English

### Target Audience and Qualifications
- 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

### Course Description — Scope and Topics
- 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.

### Course Objectives — Learning Outcomes
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.

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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Apply Now](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=OL26.165E)
- [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)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/igx-govol26-165_