Income Distribution and Redistribution Course
This course equips you with essential tools to examine income distribution and redistribution policies. You will analyse inequality using real-world data from sources like World Bank and IMF, evaluate fiscal impacts, design practical reforms, and produce clear policy briefs for economists and leaders in Sierra Leone and beyond.

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 measures, and handle global data sources. Evaluate tax burdens and transfer benefits, create effective tax or transfer policies, simulate inequality effects simply, and write compelling reports for top decision-makers.
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Develop skills
- Master inequality measures: quickly interpret Gini, income shares, and poverty stats.
- Conduct fiscal incidence analysis: determine who pays taxes and benefits from transfers.
- Design tax and transfer reforms: develop progressive, practical policy options.
- Write effective policy briefs: simplify complex data into concise reports.
- Source and clean equity data: extract key statistics from WB, IMF, and OECD databases.
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