Inclusive Growth (IGx)

Source details

Session No.: OL 26.161
Location: Course conducted online
Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks) New dates
Delivery Method: Online Training
Primary Language: English
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.
Technical requirement: Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.

Objective: Broaden participants' understanding of the relationship between macroeconomic policies and reforms, competitiveness, and growth.
Context: Responds to concerns about poor growth prospects, high unemployment, and inequities in income and opportunities.
Analytical coverage:
- Micro and macro policies to promote economic growth, employment growth and equitable income distribution.
- Traditional approaches emphasizing capital accumulation and productivity growth through knowledge acquisition.
- Recent non-aggregative approaches emphasizing misallocation of resources and imperfections in credit and government institutions.
- Empirical links between growth, employment and income distribution interpreted across these models.
- Role of critical policies that translate economic growth into poverty reduction and broad-based improvements in living standards.
Methods and materials:
- Draws on theory, cross-country empirical studies, and case studies of experiences in several regions of the world.
- Country case studies adapted to the region where the course is being delivered.
- Workshops that apply empirical and spreadsheet-based tools to analyze poverty and inequality measures and unemployment trends and the employment impact of labor market policies.
- Workshops that enable discussion and analysis of the impact of macro policies on equality, employment, and growth in participants' own country.

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, by 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.