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  "title": "Vulnerability Diagnostics (VDS)",
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  "summary": "Read MoreTopic : Structural Policies Target Audience Officials of all levels in central banks, ministries of finance, and other governmental agencies with macro-fiscal units (e.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The course is presented by the Institute for Capacity Development (ICD), IMF.\n- It complements the Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS) course by enhancing participants’ ability to assess fiscal, financial, and external vulnerabilities in an integrated fashion.\n- Emphasis on using several diagnostic tools to capture tail risks.\n- Topic: Structural Policies."
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      "heading": "Target Audience",
      "content": "- Officials of all levels in central banks, ministries of finance, and other governmental agencies with macro-fiscal units (e.g., cabinet office, parliament).\n- Officials who monitor and assess country-wide and regional multisectoral vulnerabilities and risks."
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      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.\n- Basic background in econometrics is required.\n- Familiarity with the use of software for econometric applications is required."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Assess risks using fiscal, financial, external, and real sectors’ vulnerability indicators.\n- Describe how vulnerabilities can morph into distress, leading to crises as a result of adverse shocks or a flawed policy mix.\n- Use diagnostic tools (including tools currently employed in IMF surveillance), to track multi-sectoral vulnerabilities and predict indicators of tail risks.\n- Adapt diagnostic tools, (organized as templates of country vulnerability reports), to their country data."
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      "heading": "Syllabus and Instructional Approach",
      "content": "- Advanced course presented by the IMF Institute for Capacity Development (ICD).\n- Complements the Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS) course by enhancing ability to assess fiscal, financial, external, and real vulnerabilities in an integrated fashion.\n- Uses lectures, analytical tools, hands-on workshops, and case studies to measure tail (as opposed to central) risks.\n- Course Structure and Standard Syllabus provided as part of the offering."
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    "It complements the Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS) course by enhancing participants’ ability to assess fiscal, financial, and external vulnerabilities in an integrated fashion.",
    "Emphasis on using several diagnostic tools to capture tail risks.",
    "Topic: Structural Policies.",
    "Officials of all levels in central banks, ministries of finance, and other governmental agencies with macro-fiscal units (e.g., cabinet office, parliament).",
    "Officials who monitor and assess country-wide and regional multisectoral vulnerabilities and risks.",
    "Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.",
    "Basic background in econometrics is required.",
    "Familiarity with the use of software for econometric applications is required.",
    "Assess risks using fiscal, financial, external, and real sectors’ vulnerability indicators.",
    "Describe how vulnerabilities can morph into distress, leading to crises as a result of adverse shocks or a flawed policy mix.",
    "Use diagnostic tools (including tools currently employed in IMF surveillance), to track multi-sectoral vulnerabilities and predict indicators of tail risks.",
    "Adapt diagnostic tools, (organized as templates of country vulnerability reports), to their country data.",
    "Advanced course presented by the IMF Institute for Capacity Development (ICD).",
    "Complements the Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS) course by enhancing ability to assess fiscal, financial, external, and real vulnerabilities in an integrated fashion.",
    "Uses lectures, analytical tools, hands-on workshops, and case studies to measure tail (as opposed to central) risks.",
    "Course Structure and Standard Syllabus provided as part of the offering.",
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