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  "title": "Financial Development and Financial Inclusion",
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  "summary": "Financial Development and Financial Inclusion Training Program Target Audience Mid-level to senior officials from central banks and government agencies dealing with regulation of the financial sector.",
  "publishDate": "2024-09-20",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Mid-level to senior officials from central banks and government agencies dealing with regulation of the financial sector.\n  - Preference is given to applicants working on issues directly related to financial development and inclusion.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Basic knowledge of economics or finance, or equivalent work experience expected.\n  - Knowledge of econometrics is helpful but not required.\n  - Strong recommendation that applicants have completed the online Financial Developmentand Financial Inclusion (FDFIx) course."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Explains the macroeconomic relevance of financial development and inclusion.\n- Begins with an analysis that defines the role of finance in the economy.\n- Presents a framework for financial market development:\n  - Identifies the main players and instruments.\n  - Highlights obstacles that could impede the development of such markets.\n  - Reviews policies that can aid financial market development.\n- Introduces financial inclusion as an integral dimension of financial development.\n- Reviews:\n  - Indicators currently used to measure financial inclusion.\n  - The macroeconomic impact of financial inclusion.\n  - Main policy strategies usually pursued to encourage inclusion.\n- Uses case studies, group work and workshops to ensure practical experience useful for participants' work."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Identify the main players and instruments needed for financial market development.\n- Measure the degree of financial development and inclusion for a country or countries using a wide range of standard indicators.\n- Use a simple analytical model to predict the likely outcomes of different policies on financial inclusion.\n- Assess policy options and strategies for financial development and inclusion from a macroeconomic perspective by identifying potential tradeoffs and possible impediments.\n- Formulate a strategy for policies to support financial development in a country, taking into account initial conditions and links between the financial sector and the macroeconomy."
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    "Identify the main players and instruments needed for financial market development.",
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    "Use a simple analytical model to predict the likely outcomes of different policies on financial inclusion.",
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