NIPFP undertakes training programmes on various aspects of public policy and public economics. Participants of these training programmes include government officials, university and college teachers, researchers and journalists from India and other South Asian countries. Training programmes for government officials include both probationers in government services as well as in-service officials from both India and abroad. The training programmes are specially tailored to the needs of the participants. and deal with specific themes. A list of training programmes conducted in the recent years can be seen here. While most of the programmes have been conducted on the Institute's campus (adequate infrastructure for this purpose is available in-house), there have been occasional instances of NIPFP delivering such training programmes elsewhere on demand.

See list of training programmes undertaken in recent years