September 2 to 6, 2024

From September 2 to 6, 2024, the CICDC course on Inclusive Growth (IG) took place in Shenzhen in collaboration with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). 24 participants from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and local Development and Reform Commissions participated in the course.

This course, delivered by Xiaochen Feng, Hui He and Rodrigo Cubero from the Institute for Capacity Development at the IMF, was designed to increase participants’ understanding of inclusive growth and give them analytical and operational tools to evaluate, measure, and monitor how macroeconomic policies can affect growth, climate change, poverty, inequality, and job creation. It also covered the challenges to inclusion from longer-term structural trends such as demographics and climate change. Lectures introduced the basic concepts of inclusive growth, with a special focus on long-term sustainability, while workshops offered participants an opportunity to apply the concepts and think about the design of inclusive growth strategies, drawing from country case studies. The course was well received by the participants.

During the course, the Shenzhen Training Center organized a field visit for experts and participants to BYD Company Limited. The staff in BYD highlighted the company's advanced experiences and practices in addressing technological transformations and global climate change.