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  "title": "Developing a Medium-Term Fiscal Framework Tool",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Candidates should have at least intermediate Excel skills, and a good understanding of English.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-11",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- The training is intended for mid-level staff working in macro-fiscal units, economic analysis departments or budget departments, typically within Finance or Planning ministries, who are involved in macro-fiscal forecasting or high-Ievel budget formulation.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Candidates should have at least intermediate Excel skills.\n  - Candidates should have a good understanding of English."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Session logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 22.31\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: July 25-29, 2022 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed"
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      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- The course focuses on designing and building a medium term fiscal framework (MTFF) spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel.\n- It emphasizes that at the heart of a MTFF is a spreadsheet that brings together macroeconomic and fiscal data, and projects these into the future.\n- The course situates MTFFs as central to medium term budgeting and fiscal planning for finance ministries."
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    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and competencies",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Understand the principles of \"Useful, useable, accurate, and sustainable\" in developing an appropriate MTFF tool.\n- Understand the key role in having a binding \"fiscal anchor\" when setting up a MTFF and determining a resource envelope for the next year's budget.\n- Link together data and exogenous forecasts from different sources and use appropriate methods to forecast revenues, financing and expenditures into the medium term."
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      "heading": "Related institutional offering note",
      "content": "- The institution offers online training to government officials and the public; participants are directed to \"Learn more\" to find current offerings."
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    "The training is intended for mid-level staff working in macro-fiscal units, economic analysis departments or budget departments, typically within Finance or Planning ministries, who are involved in macro-fiscal forecasting or high-Ievel budget formulation.",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Session No.: SA 22.31",
    "Location: New Delhi, India",
    "Date: July 25-29, 2022 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "The course focuses on designing and building a medium term fiscal framework (MTFF) spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel.",
    "It emphasizes that at the heart of a MTFF is a spreadsheet that brings together macroeconomic and fiscal data, and projects these into the future.",
    "The course situates MTFFs as central to medium term budgeting and fiscal planning for finance ministries.",
    "Understand the principles of \"Useful, useable, accurate, and sustainable\" in developing an appropriate MTFF tool.",
    "Understand the key role in having a binding \"fiscal anchor\" when setting up a MTFF and determining a resource envelope for the next year's budget.",
    "Link together data and exogenous forecasts from different sources and use appropriate methods to forecast revenues, financing and expenditures into the medium term.",
    "The institution offers online training to government officials and the public; participants are directed to \"Learn more\" to find current offerings."
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