Income Distribution and Redistribution Course
Master income distribution and redistribution with practical tools to analyze inequality, taxes, and transfers. Learn to use real data, assess policy trade-offs, and craft clear, evidence-based recommendations for economists and policymakers.

4 to 360 hours of flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What Will I Learn?
This intensive course gives you practical tools to measure income and wealth distribution, interpret Gini and poverty metrics, and work confidently with global databases. You will assess who really bears taxes and benefits from transfers, design realistic tax or transfer reforms, estimate poverty and inequality impacts with simple simulations, and produce clear, persuasive policy reports for high-level decision makers.
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Develop Skills
- Inequality metrics mastery: interpret Gini, income shares, and poverty data fast.
- Fiscal incidence analysis: assess who pays taxes and who gains from transfers.
- Tax and transfer reform design: craft progressive, feasible, high-impact options.
- Policy brief writing: turn complex distributional results into clear, tight reports.
- Data sourcing for equity analysis: pull and clean key stats from WB, IMF, OECD.
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