Fundamentals of Economic Policy: Contemporary Challenges for India

Details of the #WebPolicyLearning:

Dates: TBA
Classes on consecutive evenings
Time: 4 – 6 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom 

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/xLLWcXC2ycss94Bz5

Course Fee in INR (inclusive of GST): Professionals: INR TBA| Students: INR TBA

Special 20 percent discount for IMPRI Alumni. Bulk Discounts can be availed for groups of more than 5 participants. IMPRI Alumni can avail benefits through the IMPRI Referral Policy for Alumni & Friends.

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Economic policy sits at the intersection of quantitative analysis, political reality and societal welfare. Every budget, interest rate decision, trade agreement and welfare scheme rests on choices that affect growth, distribution and stability, yet most people who follow public policy have never had a plain introduction to how these choices are made.

This twelve-session introductory online certificate course, hosted by IMPRI’s Center for the Study of Finance and Economics, declutters core macroeconomic and microeconomic concepts, market structures, fiscal tools and institutional decision-making. It then applies them to the debates shaping India now: fiscal federalism and the 16th Finance Commission, industrial policy and the Production-Linked Incentive schemes, central banking and inflation, Digital Public Infrastructure and fintech, trade reconfigurations and the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, gig-economy labour welfare, agrarian distress, municipal finance, and the energy transition.

Each session pairs an academic economist with a practitioner, such as a former civil servant, a market economist, a journalist or a field organiser, so concepts are tested against implementation realities. Open to early-career professionals, civil society practitioners, researchers and students, the programme aims to move from concepts to evidence, and from evidence to a clear reading of policy.

Key Themes & Focus Areas

• Macroeconomic Foundations: The formal and informal economy, national accounts and GDP revisions, post-pandemic demand recovery and high-frequency indicators.
• Fiscal Policy and Federalism: Budgets, taxation, tax devolution, state debt, the 16th Finance Commission, and the shift in industrial policy through the Production-Linked Incentive schemes.
• Money, Banking and Digital Finance: Monetary policy, inflation targeting, banking health, and Digital Public Infrastructure and fintech policy.
• Trade and Geoeconomics: Logistics costs and connectivity, free trade agreements, supply chain resilience and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.
• Work, Welfare and the Rural Economy: Employment data, gig work and social security, agrarian distress, Minimum Support Price debates and food security.
• Cities, Climate and Regions: Municipal finance, the energy transition, regional inequities and the political economy of reform.

This course is structured for early-career professionals, civil society and NGO practitioners, researchers, civil servants, journalists, and undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students. No prior training in economics is needed.

Participants would:

• Learn from nationally and internationally renowned economists and practitioners
• Gain first-hand insights and networking opportunities
• Get the course outline and a curated pre-session reading kit of policy briefs, working papers and data snippets
• Get access to session videos for 15 days
• Receive a certificate of completion
• Have the opportunity to publish their course reflection article on the IMPRI Insights Blog, which features articles of eminent people from around the globe

Upon successful completion of the program, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

Chair:

Experts:

coming soon

Convener:
Dr Simi Mehta, CEO & Editorial Director, IMPRI
Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, IMPRI, New Delhi

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