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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2024-05-31",
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      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- All government officials are welcome to register.\n- Particularly relevant for officials in:\n  - ministries of finance,\n  - ministries of economy,\n  - ministries of planning,\n  - central banks\n- Users who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies."
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    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n- Basic Microsoft Excel skills are helpful.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection is essential.\n- Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The online course is presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- The course explains:\n  - the basic skills required to conduct financial programming;\n  - the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy (real, fiscal, external, and monetary);\n  - how these sectoral accounts relate to each other.\n- For each sector the course presents:\n  - the accounting framework;\n  - interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts;\n  - basic analysis of the accounts."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.\n  - Interpret the accounts of the real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.\n  - Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.\n  - Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework."
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    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly relevant for officials in:",
    "Users who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.",
    "Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
    "Basic Microsoft Excel skills are helpful.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection is essential.",
    "Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
    "The online course is presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
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    "For each sector the course presents:",
    "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:"
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