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  "title": "Fiscal Analysis and Forecasting (FAF)",
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  "summary": "Fiscal Analysis and Forecasting (FAF) Training Program Course Fiscal Analysis and Forecasting (FAF) This course offers participants an extensive exposure to fiscal issues and the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy.",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-17",
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      "heading": "Course overview and content",
      "content": "- Offers participants an extensive exposure to fiscal issues and the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy.\n- Separate lectures are devoted to:\n  - fiscal accounts and analysis,\n  - fiscal rules and fiscal councils,\n  - fiscal multipliers,\n  - management of natural resource revenues,\n  - fiscal forecasting, and fiscal sustainability,\n  - how the fiscal sector relates to the rest of the economy,\n  - fiscal dimensions in financial programming.\n- Workshops take up about half the course time and cover:\n  - fiscal accounting and analysis,\n  - fiscal forecasting and sustainability,\n  - fiscal multipliers,\n  - fiscal rules and fiscal councils,\n  - management of natural resource revenues,\n  - design of a fiscal baseline and alternative scenarios for a real country case study."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Junior officials from the ministries of finance and central banks who would benefit from a better understanding of the macroeconomic dimensions of fiscal policy."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Expected to have a degree in economics or a related field.\n- Experience in macroeconomic analysis.\n- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Prepare detailed analyses of revenue and spending developments.\n- Generate forecasts of revenue and spending aggregates and the fiscal balance and discuss policy implications.\n- Apply acquired knowledge and skills to group-based assessments of real country case studies."
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    "Offers participants an extensive exposure to fiscal issues and the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy.",
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    "Junior officials from the ministries of finance and central banks who would benefit from a better understanding of the macroeconomic dimensions of fiscal policy.",
    "Expected to have a degree in economics or a related field.",
    "Experience in macroeconomic analysis.",
    "Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.",
    "Prepare detailed analyses of revenue and spending developments.",
    "Generate forecasts of revenue and spending aggregates and the fiscal balance and discuss policy implications.",
    "Apply acquired knowledge and skills to group-based assessments of real country case studies."
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