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  "title": "Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS)",
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  "summary": "Macroeconomic Diagnostics Training Program Target Audience Mid-level to senior officials in central banks and ministries of finance or economy who are directly involved in diagnosing the state of the macroeconomy and making projections.",
  "publishDate": "2020-10-24",
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      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Mid-level to senior officials in central banks and ministries of finance or economy who are directly involved in diagnosing the state of the macroeconomy and making projections.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.\n  - Good quantitative skills.\n  - Proficiency in the use of Excel.\n  - Strong recommendation: applicants complete the online FPP.1 x and FFP.2 x courses or the face-to-face FPP and the online MDSx before enrolling in this course."
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      "content": "- Purpose:\n  - Strengthen participants’ ability to comprehensively assess a country’s macroeconomic situation, including:\n    - the current state of the economy;\n    - the stance of fiscal and monetary policy;\n    - financial stability;\n    - exchange rate misalignments;\n    - vulnerabilities in the different sectors;\n    - the medium-term outlook, especially the sustainability of public and external debt.\n- Emphasis:\n  - Practical tools for day-to-day macroeconomic analysis.\n  - Reliance on case studies relevant to the region where the course is given to illustrate application of tools and contribution to the policymaking process."
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      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Analyze potential output and calculate output gaps, and diagnose the outlook for the economy.\n  - Assess the stance of current fiscal, monetary and exchange rate, and financial policies.\n  - Assess macro-financial linkages, including through the analysis of financial sector soundness indicators.\n  - Assess the medium-term prospects of the economy, especially the sustainability of public and external debt, and identify impediments to long-term growth.\n  - Identify possible external and internal economic risks and vulnerabilities to economic growth and identify policies to address them."
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