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  "title": "Virtual - Fiscal Policy Analysis",
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  "summary": "Virtual - Fiscal Policy Analysis Training Program Target Audience Junior to senior officials interested in understanding fiscal policy and its macroeconomic implications.",
  "publishDate": "2022-08-13",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Training Program presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Session No.: CT 20.09 V\n- Location: Beijing, China (virtual delivery).\n- Date: December 7-11, 2020 (1 week).\n- Primary Language: English.\n- Interpretation Language: Chinese."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Junior to senior officials interested in understanding fiscal policy and its macroeconomic implications."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and recommended prerequisites",
      "content": "- Expected background:\n  - Undergraduate courses in macroeconomics or equivalent experience.\n  - Basic background in microeconomics and econometrics.\n- Strong recommendation:\n  - Applicants have completed the Financial Programming and Policies (FPP) course."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and format",
      "content": "- Provides an overview of concepts and techniques to analyze how fiscal policy can help ensure macroeconomic stability and sustainable long-term growth.\n- Hands-on course built around core macrofiscal topics needed to analyze fiscal policy.\n- Learning units include:\n  - General empirical findings.\n  - Microsoft Excel-based workshops.\n  - Case studies.\n  - Selected topics of regional interest.\n- Intended audience: officials who wish to better understand how fiscal policy can affect the economy and the related tools of analysis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Use fiscal policy to attain key government objectives: macro-stability, equity and efficiency, and sustainable long-term growth.\n  - Use the tools and techniques acquired to assess the country’s fiscal stance, fiscal multipliers, and debt sustainability.\n  - Assess the key elements of tax and expenditure policy."
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    {
      "heading": "Additional note",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public; participants are encouraged to review IMF online training offerings for related opportunities."
    }
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    "Interpretation Language: Chinese.",
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