Global policy skills for public servants: where to learn for free

Global Policy

• Global Systems Science and Policy: an Introduction (The Complex Systems Digital Campus) — This course looks at the field of complex systems science, explaining how it can help improve policy evaluation | Medium
• International Affairs: Global Governance (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) — This four week course will teach you why cooperative global governance is necessary and how it can be implemented, both between states and in public-private partnerships | Long
• Policy Lessons from South Korea's Development (World Bank Group) — A course from the World Bank on how South Korea became a high-income country inside a generation, and what policymakers can learn from it | Long
• Regions, EU Institutions and Policy-Making (Iversity) — This course explores how regional areas in Europe shape and are affected by EU policy, with comprehensive guidance from experts in EU law and institutions | Long
• Globalization's Winners and Losers: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries (Georgetown) — A seven-week course on the impact of globalisation on rich and poor countries, including how to respond to exploitation in the developing world and industrial decline in the West | Super long
• IMF Online Learning Portal (IMF) — The IMF's online portal offers courses in financial analysis, macroeconomic forecasting and other policy areas, in a variety of languages | Varying