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  "title": "Macroeconometric Forecasting and Analysis",
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  "summary": "Macroeconometric Forecasting and Analysis Training Program Target Audience Government officials involved in developing macroeconometric models and forecasting for the analysis, design, and implementation of macroeconomic policy.",
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      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Government officials involved in developing macroeconometric models and forecasting for the analysis, design, and implementation of macroeconomic policy."
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      "heading": "Qualifications and prerequisites",
      "content": "- Expected qualifications:\n  - An advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.\n  - A background in econometrics.\n  - Comfort using EViews for econometric applications.\n- Strong recommendation:\n  - Applicants should have completed the online Macroeconometric Forecasting (MFx) course."
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      "heading": "Course description and content",
      "content": "- Provider: Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Purpose:\n  - To give government officials a rigorous foundation in the estimation of macro-econometric models and their application for nowcasting, forecasting, and policy analysis in central banks, ministries, and public research institutions.\n- Topics and methods:\n  - Univariate and multivariate econometric time series models.\n  - State-space models.\n  - Nowcasting techniques: BRIDGE, MIDAS, and UMIDAS models.\n  - Combination of lectures on underlying theory and workshops with EViews applications.\n  - Group hands-on estimation and forecasting exercises using country cases."
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      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Identify the foundations, characteristics and limitations for a number of econometric model specifications.\n  - Use EViews software to apply modeling techniques that enhance the policy analysis and forecasting capabilities in their institutions.\n  - Apply the techniques learned to country cases from their region to forecast and analyze a policy issue.\n  - Apply appropriate tools available in the EViews econometric package to their own work or research and that of other countries."
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