Financial Programming and Policies (FPP)

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• Session: CT 19.13
• Location: Shenzhen, China
• Dates: December 2-13, 2019 (2 weeks)
• Primary language: English
• Interpretation language: Chinese

Qualifications and preparatory recommendations

• 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 complete the online FPP courses (FPP.1 x and FFP.2 x) before enrolling in this course.

Course description

• The course is presented by the IMF Institute for Capacity Development.
• The course explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.
• Coverage includes the principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors:
  • Real
  • Fiscal
  • External
  • Monetary
• Emphasis on interlinkages across sectors, highlighting both accounting and behavioral relationships and using data from a country case study.

Course objectives

• Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
  • Analyze economic and financial developments of a country in the region using historical data and a hands-on, Excel-based framework.
  • Create consistent one-year macroeconomic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.
  • Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in a baseline scenario and policy measures to address them.
  • Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.
  • Identify further policy goals and measures beyond the one-year horizon that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework.

References

• Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)
• Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)
• Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
• Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)