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Duration
5 half-days (online: Oct 2023)
Cost
Cost per course: £1,279 + VAT
Discount available via Government Campus, please get in touch
Location Location
Online
Learning Outcomes Outcomes
- Identify and understand key concepts and tools of macroeconomics and microeconomics.
- Understand and explain how markets work.
- Identify key variables of the macroeconomy: unemployment, inflation, growth, trade and balance of payments.
- Understand the causes and consequences of inflation and unemployment, and identify policies designed to address these.
- Identify sources, causes and consequences of market failure and consider options open to Government in addressing this, across a number of sectors.
- Appreciate the current macroeconomic context and anticipate the challenges of the economic and business cycle over the next decade, with a focus on policies for economic growth.
- Consider the causes, extent and impact of inequality in the UK, and links with economic growth.
- Understand economics content in the media, in reports and in other non-specialist contexts.
- Use a broad understanding of the theoretical framework and empirical evidence that informs current government policy and public debate.
- Develop an awareness of the latest economic thinking and its role in shaping UK Government policy.
Prerequisites Prerequisites
None
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This training course was one of the most useful courses I have been on. I use the learning on a regular basis in my work and life. Thank you.
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In eight years as a civil servant, this is the best training I have undertaken in terms of stretch, delivery and content.
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An excellent course. We covered lots of economics and the trainer helped us to relate it to policy at every step. This is going to make a real difference to my work.
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Everyone in the UK Civil Service should take this course.