## Inclusive Growth (IGx)

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**Canonical URL:** [Inclusive Growth (IGx)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/igxol26-161)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 26.161
- 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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### Course logistics and enrollment
- 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.

### Course description — scope, focus, and methods
- 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.

### Key topics covered
- Employment-growth linkages.
- Impact of policies, institutions, and regulations on employment and growth.
- Strategies for fostering inclusive growth.

### Learning outcomes (upon completion)
- 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.

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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=OL26.161E)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/igxol26-161_