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  "title": "Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)",
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  "summary": "Central Bank Digital Currencies Training Program Target Audience Mid-level to senior officials in central banks and other government agencies dealing with regulation of the financial sector.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-15",
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      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 22.48\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: December 5-9, 2022 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Mid-level to senior officials in central banks and other government agencies dealing with regulation of the financial sector.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or finance or equivalent work experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and topics",
      "content": "- The course is designed to give participants a foundation in central bank digital currencies (CBDC).\n- It will assess the business case for CBDC adoption from the perspective of users and central banks.\n- After motivations and introductory remarks on digitalization, the course will:\n  - Discuss the different forms of CBDCs.\n  - Present considerations for CBDC design and a conceptual framework.\n  - Present the benefits, costs and risks related to CBDCs.\n- The course studies CBDCs in terms of their implications for:\n  - Financial stability and bank intermediation.\n  - The monetary policy transmission.\n  - Financial integrity.\n  - Financial inclusion.\n- Sometime will be devoted to regulatory considerations, both at the national and international level.\n- The course will include country case studies and country pilots to:\n  - Identify threats to financial stability and various risks.\n  - Extract lessons to try to prevent design pitfalls."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — learning outcomes",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Explain the economic rationale for the use of CBDCs compared to other payment instruments.\n- Use the framework presented in the course to think about the design and implementation of CBDCs.\n- Use the concepts introduced in the course to assess the benefits and costs of CBDCs.\n- Identify threats to financial stability and various risks based on country case studies.\n- Extract lessons from country pilots to try to prevent design pitfalls."
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    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "The course is designed to give participants a foundation in central bank digital currencies (CBDC).",
    "It will assess the business case for CBDC adoption from the perspective of users and central banks.",
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    "The course studies CBDCs in terms of their implications for:",
    "Sometime will be devoted to regulatory considerations, both at the national and international level.",
    "The course will include country case studies and country pilots to:",
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    "Use the concepts introduced in the course to assess the benefits and costs of CBDCs.",
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