Financial Programming and Policies
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- Session: AT 24.39
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: June 3-14, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: French Portuguese
- Status: Deadline passed
Program overview and logistics
- Session No.: AT 24.39
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Date: June 3-14, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Interpretation Language: French Portuguese
- Deadline passed
Target audience and prerequisites
- Target Audience:
- Officials from ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help design and implement macroeconomic and financial policies.
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience and be proficient in the use of spreadsheets.
- It is strongly recommended that applicants have completed the online Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1 x) course or the online Financial Programming and Analysis, Part 2: Program Design (FPP.2 x) course.
Course description and content focus
- The course is presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- The course explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.
- Coverage:
- Principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.
- Interlinkages among sectors, highlighting both accounting and behavioral relationships.
- Use of data from a country case study.
Learning objectives and expected competencies
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Create consistent macroeconomic baseline projections on the assumption that policies do not change, while respecting accounting and behavioral links among economic variables.
- Analyze the baseline macroeconomic scenario, to understand economic and financial developments, and diagnose macroeconomic imbalances.
- Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in the baseline scenario and articulate how policy measures address them.
- Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.
- Identify further policy goals and measures that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework.