Objective: To ensure that participants can understand economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic:

• The COVID-19 case:
  1. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on global economy
  2. Effective policies to support economy and financial system in the world
  3. Social and economic policy responses
• Introduction to the COVID-19 stimulus package case challenge
• Interactive role-play case studies to understand policymaking in times of crisis.

Objective: To ensure that participants can understand "whole-of-government" policy approach.

• Core principles of "whole-of-government" policy approach
  1. How to eliminate 'silos' between government institutions
  2. How to link policy development and implementation across several levels of public policy and different stakeholders
  3. Examples of successful implementation of "whole-of-government" policy approach

Objective: Help participants understand fundamentals of labour market policies and active labour market policies in times of crisis

• The fundamentals of different labour market models (from social to market)
• Best practice labour market policies
• Active labour market policies in times of crisis

Objective: Help participants understand policies for competitiveness and competitiveness challenges globally

• Define competitiveness and its challenges
• Framework and building block of policies for competitiveness
• Policies for competitiveness in different regions
• Interactive role-play case studies to understand policy barriers and formulate relevant policy options in increasing competitiveness.

Objective: Help participants understand Human Capital Development (HCD) policies and learn measurement tools

• Define HCD, its relevance, and its impact on employment
• Identify importance of HCD: e.g. economic impact, or impact on workforce quality and the labour market
• Identify implementation and measurement tools: Inclusive workforce skills strategy formation, annual spending on education, vocational education and training (VET)
• Interactive role-play case studies to understand policy context and reform options for a country and type of interactions between countries.

Objective: Help participants understand how innovation and entrepreneurship policies can support job creation

• Define innovation (e.g. product, process, marketing, organisation) and entrepreneurship
• Identify the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship for a country
  1. Alignment with National vision, impact on labour market, contribution to economic growth, impact on current strategies and policies
  2. Examples of policies that promote innovation and entrepreneurship
• Interactive role-play case studies to examine ways to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship within budgetary requirements.

Objective: Help participants understand other policies that impact employment and job creation

• Trade policy (basic concepts, tariff and non-tariff policies, how trade policy strategies are translated into employment)
• Infrastructure policies (direct and indirect employment generated by transport infrastructure projects, what kind of infrastructure projects, which one of the them affects jobs)

Objective: Help participants understand the necessity of policy reforms and the tools used for their measurement and implementation

• Defining reforms and ways of implementation: full cycle for implementation (evidence, institutions, communication, timing and cost/benefits)
• Types of reforms: Labour, migration and human capital
• General indicators used to measure the impact of policy reforms
• Interactive exercise: participants will select which indicators can be used to measure a given list of policy reforms (country specific vs. regional, policy specific vs. external evaluation)

• Consultant approach to problem solving and analysis: hypothesis testing and structured frameworks
• Overview of the pyramid principle
  1. Purpose of the pyramid principle, and specifically the decision tree, in developing reports
• Structuring the pyramid to generate reports: Question, Evidence, Analysis, Significance

Objective: Explain the analytical frameworks used for problem identification and solving, specifying the cases where each framework is applicable and defining the frameworks' strengths and weaknesses

• Defining an analytical framework: use in policy analysis and creating reports

Objective: To analyse the problem of decreasing employment through the viewpoint of different government entities.

• Participants will analyse the situation of employment from different perspectives, discuss the analysis with others, and identify implications

Objective: To ensure that participants can use and analyse basic data and understand the use of qualitative and quantitative data

• Core analytical techniques: analyse numbers rather than looking at them in isolation; basic data analysis techniques and; spotting patterns in data
• Interactive exercise: using data to support benchmarking

Objective: Introduce concepts of Economic Complexity, system dynamics and agent-based modelling and their use in policymaking

• Economic complexity
• Introduction to modelling tools
  1. model the spread of the virus using Agent-Based SEIR epidemiological model based on WHO best practices

Objective: To ensure that participants can understand basics of machine

• Overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Paradigm Shift in Computing World (Definition of AI, Broad Applications of AI, Foundation & History of AI, Different Types of AI Agents for Different Purposes)
• Overview of Machine Learning (ML): Core Pillar of the AI Field (Definition of ML, High-Level Categories of ML & Differences, Statistical Model Examples for each Category)

Objective: Introduction to communication techniques:

• Momentum “For public and private sectors”
• Exercise ‘on making reforms happen’

Objective: Participants should be able to understand the two key areas of the balance of payments concept; trade in services and FDI:

• Understand process of compilation and dissemination of balance of payments data according to the techniques provided in the BPM6
• Identify potential new data sources to be used to improve the compilation of balance of payments statistics.
• Discuss appropriate statistical techniques to deal with complex methodological and compilation issues.
• Extract lessons from the experiences of other compilers.
• Discuss the analytical use of balance of payments.