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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1x)",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-02-10",
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      "heading": "Qualifications and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n- Basic Microsoft Excel skills required.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "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- Relevant roles: officials who advise on macroeconomic and financial policies or who are involved in policy implementation.\n- Course language offerings: English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.\n- Covers the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.\n- For each sector, 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 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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    "Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
    "Basic Microsoft Excel skills required.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly relevant for officials in:",
    "Relevant roles: officials who advise on macroeconomic and financial policies or who are involved in policy implementation.",
    "Course language offerings: English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.",
    "Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
    "Explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.",
    "Covers the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.",
    "For each sector, presents:",
    "Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.",
    "Interpret the accounts of real, fiscal, external, and monetary sectors that comprise the macroeconomy.",
    "Describe the accounting and behavioral links between the macroeconomic accounts.",
    "Analyze economic and financial developments of a case study country using a hands-on, Excel-based framework."
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