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  "title": "Inclusive Growth - Labor Markets Gender and Technology (IGx-LMGT)",
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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": "2026-02-17",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- 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.\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and core themes",
      "content": "- The course examines inclusive growth from a labor market perspective.\n- It explains how an inclusive labor market is important for an individual's economic well-being and helps the economy operate more efficiently.\n- It discusses determinants of labor market outcomes, including discrimination and how it could be addressed.\n- It explores how artificial intelligence and technological advancements affect labor market inclusivity and introduces possible policy options to steer technological progress to support inclusivity.\n- It addresses gender discrimination, the potential gains of gender inclusion, and policies to reduce multiple dimensions of the gender gap."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- 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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    "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.",
    "The course examines inclusive growth from a labor market perspective.",
    "It explains how an inclusive labor market is important for an individual's economic well-being and helps the economy operate more efficiently.",
    "It discusses determinants of labor market outcomes, including discrimination and how it could be addressed.",
    "It explores how artificial intelligence and technological advancements affect labor market inclusivity and introduces possible policy options to steer technological progress to support inclusivity.",
    "It addresses gender discrimination, the potential gains of gender inclusion, and policies to reduce multiple dimensions of the gender gap.",
    "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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