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  "title": "Virtual : Vulnerability Diagnostics (VDS)",
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  "summary": "Virtual : Vulnerability Diagnostics Training Program Qualifications Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience, a basic background in econometrics, and familiarity with the use of software for econometric applications.",
  "publishDate": "2023-05-24",
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      "heading": "Invitation and Logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: CT 22.18 V\n- Location: Beijing, China\n- Date: December 5-16, 2022 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Chinese\n- Presented by: Institute for Capacity Development"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and Target Audience",
      "content": "- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.\n  - A basic background in econometrics is expected.\n  - Familiarity with the use of software for econometric applications is expected.\n- Target Audience:\n  - 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- The course 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."
    },
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - 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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    "Presented by: Institute for Capacity Development",
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    "Target Audience:",
    "The course 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.",
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