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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts & Analysis Training Program Target Audience Officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning and central banks who advise on or help implement macroeconomic and financial policies.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-17",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - 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 are essential."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The online course explains the basic skills required to conduct financial programming.\n- The course covers the principal features of the accounts of the four main sectors that comprise the macroeconomy: real, fiscal, external, and 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."
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      "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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    "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.",
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