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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2023/fpphq23-06",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies Training Program Target Audience Officials from ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.",
  "publishDate": "2024-06-04",
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    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and prerequisites",
      "content": "- Educational/professional requirements:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience.\n  - Participants are expected to be proficient in the use of spreadsheets.\n- Recommended prior training:\n  - It is strongly recommended that applicants have completed the online Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1 x) or the online Financial Programming and Analysis, Part 2: Program Design (FPP.2 x) course."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.\n- Covers the principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors:\n  - real\n  - fiscal\n  - external\n  - monetary\n- Highlights both accounting and behavioral relationships and uses data from a country case study.\n- Emphasizes hands-on, Excel-based analysis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Analyze economic and financial developments of a country in the region using historical data and a hands-on, Excel based framework.\n- Create consistent one-year macroeconomic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.\n- Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in a baseline scenario and policy measures to address them.\n- Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.\n- Identify further policy goals and measures beyond the one-year horizon that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Additional note",
      "content": "- The IMF offers online training to government officials and the public."
    }
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    "Educational/professional requirements:",
    "Recommended prior training:",
    "Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
    "Explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.",
    "Covers the principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors:",
    "Highlights both accounting and behavioral relationships and uses data from a country case study.",
    "Emphasizes hands-on, Excel-based analysis.",
    "Analyze economic and financial developments of a country in the region using historical data and a hands-on, Excel based framework.",
    "Create consistent one-year macroeconomic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.",
    "Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in a baseline scenario and policy measures to address them.",
    "Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.",
    "Identify further policy goals and measures beyond the one-year horizon that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework.",
    "The IMF offers online training to government officials and the public."
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