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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-21",
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      "heading": "Qualifications and Technical Requirements",
      "content": "- Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n- Basic Microsoft Excel skills are required.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Details",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.162\n- Deadline passed\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- The course is offered in English French, and Spanish."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience",
      "content": "- All government officials are welcome to register.\n- Particularly relevant for officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning and in central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- This online course, 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.\n- Presents simple forecasting methods for each macroeconomic sector.\n- Explains the baseline assumptions for the diagnosis of macroeconomic performance.\n- Demonstrates the preparation of a macroeconomic adjustment program for a case study country."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Construct baseline projections of the real, external, government, and monetary sectors using sector-specific variables.\n- Describe the relationships between the sectors in both accounting and behavioral terms.\n- Create consistent one-year economic projections on the assumption that policies do not change.\n- Use a macroeconomic model to analyze how policy changes affect a forecast.\n- Identify and appraise the economic vulnerabilities inherent in an emerging market economy.\n- Prepare a macroeconomic policy scenario using a given set of data."
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    "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.",
    "This online course, 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.",
    "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.",
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