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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis",
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  "summary": "Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-17",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.141.\n- Course conducted online.\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks).\n- Delivery Method: Online Training.\n- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development."
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      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - All government officials are welcome to register.\n  - Particularly relevant for officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
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      "content": "- Course Description:\n  - 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  - Shows how the four sector accounts relate to each other.\n  - For each sector, presents the accounting framework, interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts, and basic analysis of the accounts.\n- Upon completion, 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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      "heading": "Language and accessibility",
      "content": "- Primary Language: English.\n- Course is offered in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic."
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