Examples of Economic Growth Challenges

Your economic challenge can be at a city, regional, or country level. Here are some examples of economic growth challenges that past participants have worked on during the program.

• High rates of unemployment or underemployment
• Increasing inequality, with many not being included in the growth process
• High rates of poverty and low growth
• Volatile growth dependent on one source
• Disruption of major economic activities due to the pandemic, e.g. tourism
• Lack of fiscal space to save jobs and address pandemic
• Macroeconomic instability and recurrent balance of payments shocks
• Low productivity due to poor human capital development
• Skills mismatch between skills you have and the jobs you want to create
• Lack of quality jobs; high levels of informality in the economy