We use our poverty-inequality models to explain the link between household poverty and inequality and macroeconomics, industrial transformation, taxation and social security. By having access to the models, you will learn how to design policies and generate projections of the impact of policies, such as the BIG, public employment and macroeconomic policy, on various measures of inequality, income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty by race, gender, province, family type, quintile and locality.

The course will then present the aims and experiences with macroeconomic modelling. The course goes into details on why and how macroeconomic models are built, their theoretical orientation, architecture, role of data, statistical analysis and computer programming. Specific course modules will present the process of building an actual model and its operation. You will have access to state of art macroeconomic models to learn and practice designing macro and industry policy scenarios, conducting impact analyses and integrating model projections into medium and long term M&E.

Through hands-on practice session, our web-based linked models allow you to forecast the impact of national level policies on provincial economies and the impact of provincial interventions locally, on other provinces and at the national level. Course modules are also dedicated to teaching how to integrate linked national-provincial model projections into provincial and national M&E.