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  "summary": "2 x) This online course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development, builds on the FPP.",
  "publishDate": "2022-08-09",
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Title: Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design (FPP.2 x).\n- The course is online and presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- It builds on the FPP.1 x course to expand participants’ understanding of the design and application of macroeconomic and financial policies.\n- Content coverage:\n  - Simple forecasting methods for each macroeconomic sector.\n  - Baseline assumptions for the diagnosis of macroeconomic performance.\n  - Preparation of a macroeconomic adjustment program for a case study country.\n- Topic : General Macroeconomics\n- The course is offered in English French, and Spanish."
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      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- All government officials are welcome to register.\n- Particularly relevant for officials in:\n  - Ministries of finance, economy, planning.\n  - Central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n- Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Construct baseline projections of the real, external, government, and monetary sectors using sector-specific variables.\n- Describe the relationships between the sectors in both accounting and behavioral terms.\n- Create consistent one-year economic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.\n- Use a macroeconomic model to analyze how policy changes affect a forecast.\n- Identify and appraise the economic vulnerabilities inherent in an emerging market economy.\n- Prepare a macroeconomic policy scenario using a given set of data."
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    "Title: Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design (FPP.2 x).",
    "The course is online and presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
    "It builds on the FPP.1 x course to expand participants’ understanding of the design and application of macroeconomic and financial policies.",
    "Content coverage:",
    "Topic : General Macroeconomics",
    "The course is offered in English French, and Spanish.",
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly relevant for officials in:",
    "Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
    "Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.",
    "Construct baseline projections of the real, external, government, and monetary sectors using sector-specific variables.",
    "Describe the relationships between the sectors in both accounting and behavioral terms.",
    "Create consistent one-year economic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.",
    "Use a macroeconomic model to analyze how policy changes affect a forecast.",
    "Identify and appraise the economic vulnerabilities inherent in an emerging market economy.",
    "Prepare a macroeconomic policy scenario using a given set of data."
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