Income Distribution and Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to examine income inequality, taxation, and welfare transfers using real-world data. You will learn to evaluate policy options, run basic simulations on poverty impacts, and produce sharp, data-driven policy briefs ideal for economists and government leaders seeking actionable insights.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills to analyse income and wealth distribution, understand Gini and poverty indicators, and handle global datasets effectively. Evaluate tax burdens and transfer benefits, create practical tax or transfer policies, simulate inequality effects simply, and draft compelling reports for top policymakers.
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Develop skills
- Master inequality measures like Gini, income shares, and poverty stats quickly.
- Conduct fiscal incidence studies to see who pays taxes and benefits from transfers.
- Design effective, progressive tax and transfer reforms that work in practice.
- Write concise policy briefs from complex distribution analysis.
- Source and prepare equity data from World Bank, IMF, and OECD databases.
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