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  "title": "Cancelled: Fiscal Sustainability (FS)",
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  "summary": "Cancelled: Fiscal Sustainability Training Program Target Audience Junior to senior officials with some intermediate fiscal background who are interested in understanding and applying fiscal sustainability analyses and learning how such analyses may relate to a country-specific environment.",
  "publishDate": "2024-04-05",
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    {
      "heading": "Status and Session Details",
      "content": "- The Training Program was Cancelled.\n- Session No.: OT 24.304\n- Location: Bridgetown, Barbados\n- Date: March 11-22, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Presented by: the Institute for Capacity Development"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience: Junior to senior officials with some intermediate fiscal background who are interested in understanding and applying fiscal sustainability analyses and learning how such analyses may relate to a country-specific environment.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience.\n  - Participants are expected to have some familiarity with using spreadsheets."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Focus: Fiscal sustainability as a requirement for macroeconomic stability and sustainable and inclusive long-term growth.\n- Scope:\n  - Provides a thorough overview of how to assess fiscal sustainability from a policy and tools perspective.\n  - Discusses long-term fiscal pressures and risks.\n  - Covers debt management strategies and the early warning indicators used by the IMF.\n  - Gives special attention to case studies of fiscal crises and the subsequent fiscal adjustments."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe why fiscal sustainability is central to macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth.\n- Apply effective concepts, definitions, and techniques for analyzing fiscal sustainability.\n- Identify fiscal vulnerabilities, distinguishing between near-term and long-term risks.\n- Analyze crises and fiscal adjustment cases.\n- Differentiate between various debt sustainability analysis (DSA) frameworks.\n- Prepare a brief DSA for either a country with access to financial markets or a low-income country."
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    "The Training Program was Cancelled.",
    "Session No.: OT 24.304",
    "Location: Bridgetown, Barbados",
    "Date: March 11-22, 2024 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Presented by: the Institute for Capacity Development",
    "Target Audience: Junior to senior officials with some intermediate fiscal background who are interested in understanding and applying fiscal sustainability analyses and learning how such analyses may relate to a country-specific environment.",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Focus: Fiscal sustainability as a requirement for macroeconomic stability and sustainable and inclusive long-term growth.",
    "Scope:",
    "Describe why fiscal sustainability is central to macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth.",
    "Apply effective concepts, definitions, and techniques for analyzing fiscal sustainability.",
    "Identify fiscal vulnerabilities, distinguishing between near-term and long-term risks.",
    "Analyze crises and fiscal adjustment cases.",
    "Differentiate between various debt sustainability analysis (DSA) frameworks.",
    "Prepare a brief DSA for either a country with access to financial markets or a low-income country."
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