Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design
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- Session: OL 23.150
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Deadline passed
Target Audience and Qualifications
- Target Audience:
- All government officials are welcome to register.
- Particularly relevant for officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning and in central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.
- The course is offered in English French, and Spanish.
- Qualifications:
- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.
- Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.
Course Description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- Builds on the FPP.1 x course to expand participants’ understanding of the design and application of macroeconomic and financial policies.
- Presents simple forecasting methods for each macroeconomic sector.
- Explains the baseline assumptions for the diagnosis of macroeconomic performance.
- Demonstrates the preparation of a macroeconomic adjustment program for a case study country.
Course Objectives
- Construct baseline projections of the real, external, government, and monetary sectors using sector-specific variables.
- Describe the relationships between the sectors in both accounting and behavioral terms.
- Create consistent one-year economic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.
- Use a macroeconomic model to analyze how policy changes affect a forecast.
- Identify and appraise the economic vulnerabilities inherent in an emerging market economy.
- Prepare a macroeconomic policy scenario using a given set of data.
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