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.

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.

The course will then introduce you to economic modelling techniques that are used to design social assistance policies and quantify their economic and social impact. You will learn about microsimulation and linked macro-micro modelling techniques that are internationally used for above purposes. With direct access to both types of models, the course goes into details on how a microsimulation model and a linked micro-macro model are built, their architecture, role of data, statistical analysis and computer programming. Through hands-on practice session, our web-based models allow you to design Basic Income Grant and/or other social assistance policy scenarios and forecast the impact of your scenarios on individuals, households, and the economy at various levels. Course modules are also dedicated to teaching how to integrate model projections into national and provincial M&E system.