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  "title": "Virtual: Monetary Policy",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/mpat27-06v",
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  "summary": "Virtual: Monetary Policy Training Program Target Audience Junior to mid-level officials from emerging markets and low-income countries interested in understanding the conduct of monetary policy and its interaction with the rest of the economy.",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-27",
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      "heading": "Training program and target audience",
      "content": "- Training Program: Virtual: Monetary Policy (MP)\n- Session No.: AT 27.06 V\n- Target Audience: Junior to mid-level officials from emerging markets and low-income countries interested in understanding the conduct of monetary policy and its interaction with the rest of the economy.\n- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience and be comfortable using Microsoft Excel."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Session logistics",
      "content": "- Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Date: March 22, 2027 - April 30, 2027 (6 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: French"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy regimes, monetary transmission mechanisms, and the role of monetary policy in macroeconomic stabilization.\n- Bridges theory, empirical evidence, and operational experience by illustrating tradeoffs involved in monetary policy decisions.\n- Learning progression:\n  - Lectures introducing basic policy concepts.\n  - Hands-on workshops with a special focus on practical policy challenges in emerging markets and developing economies.\n  - Case studies to reinforce understanding and compare policy responses to various shocks under different monetary policy regimes.\n- Recognizes evolving monetary frameworks and central bank mandates and considers recent crises that have dramatically changed the landscape in which central banks operate.\n- Covers policy areas beyond simple interest rate policies, including Unconventional Monetary Policy and central bank communication.\n- Discusses the recent evolution of central bank digital currencies and its implications for monetary policy transmission and operations."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and practitioner outcomes",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Analyze how monetary policy decisions are made under various regimes to deliver price stability and meet other objectives.\n  - Identify how these decisions are transmitted to the real economy.\n  - Evaluate how the economy and monetary policy respond to macroeconomic shocks under various monetary policy frameworks, demonstrated through a group presentation to their peers.\n- Central bank practitioners should also be able to:\n  - Design a sound monetary policy framework.\n  - Prescribe policies consistent with the framework chosen."
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    "Session No.: AT 27.06 V",
    "Target Audience: Junior to mid-level officials from emerging markets and low-income countries interested in understanding the conduct of monetary policy and its interaction with the rest of the economy.",
    "Qualifications: Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience and be comfortable using Microsoft Excel.",
    "Location: Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Date: March 22, 2027 - April 30, 2027 (6 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Virtual Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: French",
    "Provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy regimes, monetary transmission mechanisms, and the role of monetary policy in macroeconomic stabilization.",
    "Bridges theory, empirical evidence, and operational experience by illustrating tradeoffs involved in monetary policy decisions.",
    "Learning progression:",
    "Recognizes evolving monetary frameworks and central bank mandates and considers recent crises that have dramatically changed the landscape in which central banks operate.",
    "Covers policy areas beyond simple interest rate policies, including Unconventional Monetary Policy and central bank communication.",
    "Discusses the recent evolution of central bank digital currencies and its implications for monetary policy transmission and operations.",
    "Upon completion, participants should be able to:",
    "Central bank practitioners should also be able to:"
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