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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": "2025-05-28",
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      "heading": "Course overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Event: Financial Development and Financial Inclusion training program (Session No.: JV 24.31).\n- Organizer: Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund.\n- Location: JVI in Vienna, Austria.\n- Delivery Method: Blended Training.\n- Primary Language: English.\n- Date (in-person session): October 07-11, 2024.\n- Virtual segment dates: September 30 – October 04, 2024.\n- Duration: 2 weeks (comprising the virtual segment plus the in-person session).\n- Admission condition: Successful completion of the virtual segment is a prerequisite for advancement to the in-person component.\n- Application status: Deadline passed."
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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 given to applicants working on issues directly related to financial development and inclusion.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Expected background: basic knowledge of economics or finance, or equivalent work experience.\n  - Additional helpful skills: knowledge of econometrics (helpful but not required)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and pedagogical approach",
      "content": "- Purpose:\n  - Explain the macroeconomic relevance of financial development and inclusion.\n  - Introduce financial inclusion as an integral dimension of financial development.\n- Structure:\n  - Part 1: Virtual Segment (selected participants; September 30 – October 04, 2024).\n  - Part 2: In-Person Session (October 07-11, 2024 at JVI in Vienna).\n- Content areas:\n  - Analysis defining the role of finance in the economy.\n  - Framework for financial market development: main players and instruments.\n  - Obstacles impeding financial market development and policies to encourage development.\n  - Indicators used to measure financial inclusion and its macroeconomic impact.\n  - Main policy strategies to encourage financial inclusion.\n- Methods:\n  - Extensive case studies.\n  - Groupwork and workshops to provide practical experience relevant to participants’ jobs."
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    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and learning outcomes",
      "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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    "Organizer: Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund.",
    "Location: JVI in Vienna, Austria.",
    "Delivery Method: Blended Training.",
    "Primary Language: English.",
    "Date (in-person session): October 07-11, 2024.",
    "Virtual segment dates: September 30 – October 04, 2024.",
    "Duration: 2 weeks (comprising the virtual segment plus the in-person session).",
    "Admission condition: Successful completion of the virtual segment is a prerequisite for advancement to the in-person component.",
    "Application status: Deadline passed.",
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    "Identify the main players and instruments needed for financial market development.",
    "Measure the degree of financial development and inclusion for a country or countries using a wide range of standard indicators.",
    "Use a simple analytical model to predict the likely outcomes of different policies on financial inclusion.",
    "Assess policy options and strategies for financial development and inclusion from a macroeconomic perspective by identifying potential tradeoffs and possible impediments.",
    "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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