Financial Programming and Policies (FPP)

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Training Program: Financial Programming and Policies
Session No.: CE 24.23
Deadline: Deadline passed
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Date: October 21, 2024 - November 1, 2024 (2 weeks)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: Arabic
Target Audience: Officials from ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help design and implement macroeconomic and financial policies.

Expected background: degree in economics or equivalent experience; proficiency in the use of spreadsheets.
Strong recommendation: applicants have completed one of the following online courses:
- Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1 x)
- Financial Programming and Analysis, Part 2: Program Design (FPP.2 x)

Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
Explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.
Covers principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors: real, fiscal, external, and monetary, and their interlinkages.
Highlights both accounting and behavioral relationships and uses data from a country case study.

Upon completion of this 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.

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