Economic Modelling Academy - EMA

Economic Modelling Academy - EMA We are a teaching organization aimed at developing high-level and executive skills in economic modelling.

Good regional planning requires more than local knowledge.It requires seeing how decisions move through the whole econom...
25/08/2026

Good regional planning requires more than local knowledge.
It requires seeing how decisions move through the whole economy.

A policy may start at national level, but its effects can show up differently across provinces, districts, municipalities, industries, and communities.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Modelling Provincial-District-Municipal Economies course helps participants understand these connections using linked economic models.

The course is designed for professionals who need to answer practical planning questions such as:

✔️ How will national policy decisions affect provincial economies?
✔️ How could provincial interventions influence districts and municipalities?
✔️ Which regions or industries may experience the strongest impact?
✔️ How can model projections improve planning, budgeting, and M&E?

Through hands-on modelling, participants learn how to connect national, provincial, district, and municipal economic insight into stronger evidence for decision-making.

Because accountable regional planning depends on understanding not only what is planned, but where the impact will be felt.

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Skills intelligence is becoming essential for economic planning.It is no longer enough to know which occupations are in ...
20/08/2026

Skills intelligence is becoming essential for economic planning.

It is no longer enough to know which occupations are in demand today. Organisations need to understand how skills demand may change as the economy, education system, technology, and labour market evolve.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Skills Demand & Supply Modelling course helps participants build that deeper view.

Through this course, participants learn how to connect economic, demographic, education, and labour market data to support better planning decisions.

The course helps professionals explore:

✔️ Future demand and supply of skills
✔️ Labour force, employment, job openings, and job seeker projections
✔️ Labour market imbalances across occupations and qualifications
✔️ The impact of 4IR and changing technologies on skills needs
✔️ Scenario-based planning for education, HR strategy, SETA research, and M&E

For SETAs, HR leaders, policy teams, researchers, and workforce planners, this course supports stronger decisions about where to invest, what to prioritise, and how to prepare for future workforce needs.

Because skills planning becomes more powerful when it is guided by evidence, not assumption.

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Green policy decisions carry more than environmental consequences.They can affect industries, energy demand, emissions, ...
14/08/2026

Green policy decisions carry more than environmental consequences.

They can affect industries, energy demand, emissions, growth, investment, and long-term development priorities.

For policy teams, planners, researchers, sustainability professionals, and M&E practitioners, the challenge is not only choosing a green pathway. It is understanding what that pathway may produce across the economy.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Green Economy Modelling course helps participants test green economy scenarios before decisions are implemented.

Through this course, participants learn how to:

✔️ Explore the links between the economy, industries, energy demand, and carbon emissions
✔️ Design green policy scenarios and assess their likely effects
✔️ Quantify economic and environmental impacts using modelling tools
✔️ Forecast how different choices may influence future outcomes
✔️ Use projections to support national and provincial M&E

Because effective green economy planning requires more than ambition. It requires evidence that shows what each decision could mean in practice.

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Economic debates are important.But decisions need more than debate.Growth, employment, unemployment, investment, industr...
12/08/2026

Economic debates are important.
But decisions need more than debate.

Growth, employment, unemployment, investment, industrial performance, and public policy are deeply connected. When one part of the economy shifts, the effects can move across multiple sectors.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Multi-Sector Macroeconomic Modelling course helps participants understand these connections through structured economic models, data, and scenario analysis.

Through this course, participants learn how to:

✔️ Explore key macroeconomic concepts and policy debates
✔️ Understand how capitalism, growth, employment, and unemployment are analysed
✔️ Examine mainstream and heterodox perspectives on the economy
✔️ Learn how macroeconomic models are built, structured, and applied
✔️ Design macro and industry policy scenarios
✔️ Conduct impact analysis and support medium and long-term M&E

This course is designed for professionals who need to turn complex economic questions into clearer, evidence-based analysis.

Because better economic decisions require more than assumptions. They require models, data, and insight.

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Regional planning is not only about where money is spent.It is about knowing where impact will land.A national policy ca...
10/08/2026

Regional planning is not only about where money is spent.
It is about knowing where impact will land.

A national policy can change provincial outcomes.
A provincial intervention can affect districts and municipalities.
A local decision can influence wider economic performance.

For planners, policy teams, researchers, economists, and M&E professionals, this means one thing:

Regional decisions need evidence that shows how economies are connected.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Modelling Provincial-District-Municipal Economies course helps participants understand the economic relationships between national, provincial, district, and municipal levels.

Through hands-on access to linked economic models, participants learn how to:

✔️ Forecast the impact of national policies on provincial economies
✔️ Analyse how provincial interventions affect local and national outcomes
✔️ Understand industry and macroeconomic linkages across regions
✔️ Use projections to support development planning and M&E
✔️ Build stronger evidence for regional policy decisions

Because effective regional planning starts with knowing how one decision moves through the whole economy.

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Not every training priority will match tomorrow’s economy.For SETAs, HR leaders, policy teams, researchers, and workforc...
06/08/2026

Not every training priority will match tomorrow’s economy.

For SETAs, HR leaders, policy teams, researchers, and workforce planners, one of the biggest challenges is deciding where to invest time, funding, and capacity.

Should resources go into occupations already in demand?
Emerging sectors?
Future technologies?
Or education pathways that may take years to produce results?

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Skills Demand & Supply Modelling course helps participants make these decisions with evidence.

Using linked macro-education modelling, participants learn how to analyse the relationship between economic growth, education supply, labour market demand, and future occupations.

The course supports better decisions around:

✔️ Training priorities
✔️ Skills investment
✔️ Occupational demand
✔️ Education and labour market alignment
✔️ National and provincial M&E

Because stronger skills systems are built when planning is guided by future demand, not short-term pressure.

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The green transition is not only an environmental challenge.It is an economic planning challenge too.For governments, po...
30/07/2026

The green transition is not only an environmental challenge.
It is an economic planning challenge too.

For governments, policy teams, researchers, sustainability professionals, and M&E practitioners, the question is not simply whether to go green.

The real question is:

How do green choices affect the wider economy?

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Green Economy Modelling course helps participants understand how climate-related policy decisions can influence:

✔️ Economic growth
✔️ Industrial structure
✔️ Energy demand
✔️ Carbon emissions
✔️ Long-term development planning

Through hands-on practice with EMA’s web-based green economy model, participants learn how to design and test policy scenarios, quantify economic and environmental impacts, and turn sustainability goals into evidence-based decisions.

This course is ideal for professionals who need to move beyond broad green ambitions and build policies that are measurable, practical, and economically informed.

Because a greener future needs more than commitment - it needs modelling, evidence, and planning.

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A policy can look successful at national level and still miss the people who need it most.That is why poverty and inequa...
27/07/2026

A policy can look successful at national level and still miss the people who need it most.

That is why poverty and inequality analysis needs to go beyond averages.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMAPoverty-Inequality Modelling course helps participants understand how policies affect different households and population groups across South Africa.

Through this course, participants learn how to use microsimulation and linked micro-macro modelling techniques to analyse:

✔️ Income poverty
✔️ Multidimensional poverty
✔️ Inequality outcomes
✔️ Household-level policy effects
✔️ Distributional impact by race, gender, province, family type, quintile, and locality

Participants also explore how taxation, social security, public employment, BIG, industrial transformation, and macroeconomic policy can shape poverty and inequality outcomes.

Because effective policy is not only about whether numbers improve.
It is about understanding who benefits, who remains vulnerable, and where support is needed most.

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The economy is not a collection of separate parts.It is one connected system.Growth, employment, industries, investment,...
24/07/2026

The economy is not a collection of separate parts.
It is one connected system.

Growth, employment, industries, investment, households, public finance, and policy choices all influence one another.

For economists, researchers, planners, policy teams, and M&E professionals, the challenge is understanding how these moving parts work together before decisions are made.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Multi-Sector Macroeconomic Modelling course helps participants move beyond isolated indicators and explore the structure of the wider economy through practical modelling.

Through this course, participants learn how to:

✔️ Understand key macroeconomic debates and schools of thought
✔️ Explore how sectors interact within the economy
✔️ Learn how macroeconomic models are built and operated
✔️ Design macro and industry policy scenarios
✔️ Conduct impact analysis using advanced modelling tools
✔️ Integrate projections into medium and long-term M&E

This course is designed for professionals who need to analyse economic change with more depth, structure, and evidence.

Because better economic decisions begin with seeing how the full system responds.

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Every regional decision has a wider economic effect.A national policy can shift provincial performance.A provincial inte...
22/07/2026

Every regional decision has a wider economic effect.

A national policy can shift provincial performance.
A provincial intervention can influence districts and municipalities.
A local decision can create effects that move beyond one area.

For planners, policy teams, researchers, and M&E professionals, the challenge is understanding those ripple effects before decisions are made.

The Economic Modelling Academy - EMA Modelling Provincial-District-Municipal Economies course helps participants use linked economic models to see how different levels of the economy interact.

Through this course, participants learn how to:

✔️ Forecast the impact of national policies on provincial economies
✔️ Analyse how provincial interventions affect local and national outcomes
✔️ Understand industry and macroeconomic linkages across regions
✔️ Use model projections to support provincial and national M&E
✔️ Strengthen evidence-based planning across provinces, districts, and municipalities

Because strong regional development depends on understanding how the whole system responds.

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