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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis",
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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": "2026-02-17",
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      "heading": "Program overview",
      "content": "- Title: Financial Programming and Policies, Part 1: Macroeconomic Accounts and Analysis (FPP.1x)\n- Session No.: OL 26.145\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Russian\n- Offered languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic\n- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development"
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      "heading": "Target audience and access requirements",
      "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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      "heading": "Course description and content focus",
      "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  - Explains how these sectoral accounts relate to each other.\n  - For each sector, the course presents the accounting framework, interpretations of variables and indicators from these accounts, and basic analysis of the accounts.\n- Methods:\n  - Online instruction with hands-on, Excel-based framework for applied analysis."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this 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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