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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis (FPP.1 x)",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis (FPP.",
  "publishDate": "2022-08-09",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The course is an online course presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- It explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.\n- It covers the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.\n- For each sector, the course presents:\n  - the accounting framework,\n  - interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts,\n  - basic analysis of the accounts.\n- Topic: General Macroeconomics"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and languages",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - All government officials are welcome to register.\n  - Particularly relevant for officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.\n- Languages: The course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n- Technical requirements:\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.\n- Interpret the accounts of the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.\n- Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.\n- Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework."
    },
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      "heading": "Delivery note",
      "content": "- Upcoming Offering"
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    "The course is an online course presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
    "It explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.",
    "It covers the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.",
    "For each sector, the course presents:",
    "Topic: General Macroeconomics",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Languages: The course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Technical requirements:",
    "Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.",
    "Interpret the accounts of the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.",
    "Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.",
    "Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework.",
    "Upcoming Offering"
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