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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": "2025-10-27",
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      "heading": "Session and Delivery Details",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.159\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Russian\n- The course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic."
    },
    {
      "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 and a Google Chrome web browser are 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  - planning ministries,\n  - central banks.\n- Relevance: officials who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies."
    },
    {
      "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:\n  - real,\n  - fiscal,\n  - external,\n  - monetary.\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 the 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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    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: Russian",
    "The course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.",
    "Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
    "Basic Microsoft Excel skills are helpful.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.",
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly relevant for officials in:",
    "Relevance: officials who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.",
    "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:",
    "For each sector the course presents:",
    "Calculate economic variables using macroeconomic accounting principles.",
    "Interpret the accounts of the 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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