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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": "2025-10-28",
  "sections": [
    {
      "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 and planning\n  - central banks\n- Relevant roles: officials who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies\n- Language availability: 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 required.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.\n- Presents the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.\n- Explains how the accounts of the four sectors relate to each other.\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 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."
    }
  ],
  "bullets": [
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly relevant for officials in:",
    "Relevant roles: officials who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies",
    "Language availability: The course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.",
    "Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
    "Basic Microsoft Excel skills are required.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
    "Explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.",
    "Presents the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.",
    "Explains how the accounts of the four sectors relate to each other.",
    "For each sector, 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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