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  "title": "Selected Macroeconomic Issues India for Phase 1 IAS Officers",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Successful candidates selected through the competitive Union Public Services Commission examination and assigned to the Indian Administrative Service.",
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      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Title: Selected Macroeconomic Issues India for Phase 1 IAS Officers\n- Session No.: SA 24.21\n- Location: Mussoorie, India\n- Date: March 12-13, 2024\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Presenting institutions: IMF Institute for Capacity Development (ICD) and South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience, qualifications, and pre-requisites",
      "content": "- Target Audience: Officer trainees comprising the incoming cohort of the Indian Administrative Service.\n- Qualifications: Successful candidates selected through the competitive Union Public Services Commission examination and assigned to the Indian Administrative Service.\n- Pre-requisites: Participants should have attended the macroeconomics module offered at the Foundation Course for officer trainees comprising the entry cohort into India's civil service."
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    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Purpose: Provide perspectives on the key components of a country's economy from a macroeconomic perspective, their inter-linkages, and the role of monetary, fiscal, and debt policy in ensuring a stable macroeconomic environment, external competitiveness, and sustained, inclusive growth.\n- Approach: Relies on a case study of India to illustrate current macroeconomic challenges and to demonstrate practical tools for use in day-to-day macroeconomic analysis and policymaking.\n- Policy areas emphasized:\n  - Monetary policy and central bank decision-making\n  - Fiscal policy and ministry of finance roles\n  - Debt policy and debt sustainability\n  - External competitiveness (including exchange rate considerations)\n  - Linkages between inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, debt levels, and economic growth"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and expected competencies",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should have a basic understanding of:\n  - The role of macroeconomic and financial policies in ensuring low inflation, debt sustainability, and supportive growth.\n  - How policy outcomes are affected by decisions made by central banks, ministries of finance, and other agencies charged with ensuring sound macroeconomic management, including in India.\n- Participants should be able to better identify:\n  - External and internal imbalances in the economy affecting inflation, interest, and exchange rates; debt levels; and economic growth.\n  - The policies needed to manage these vulnerabilities and reduce overall risks in the economy."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related IMF training offerings (listed in source)",
      "content": "- Climate in Macroeconomic Framework (CMF)\n  - Languages: English (French, Portuguese)\n  - Date: November 16-20, 2026\n  - Delivery: Blended Training\n  - Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Big Data for Macroeconomic Statistics (BDMS)\n  - Languages: English (French, Portuguese)\n  - Date: October 26-30, 2026\n  - Delivery: In-person Training\n  - Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Financial Development and Financial Inclusion (FDFI)\n  - Languages: English (French, Portuguese)\n  - Date: November 16, 2026 - December 11, 2026\n  - Delivery: Blended Training\n  - Location: Ebene, Mauritius"
    }
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    "Session No.: SA 24.21",
    "Location: Mussoorie, India",
    "Date: March 12-13, 2024",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Presenting institutions: IMF Institute for Capacity Development (ICD) and South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC)",
    "Target Audience: Officer trainees comprising the incoming cohort of the Indian Administrative Service.",
    "Qualifications: Successful candidates selected through the competitive Union Public Services Commission examination and assigned to the Indian Administrative Service.",
    "Pre-requisites: Participants should have attended the macroeconomics module offered at the Foundation Course for officer trainees comprising the entry cohort into India's civil service.",
    "Purpose: Provide perspectives on the key components of a country's economy from a macroeconomic perspective, their inter-linkages, and the role of monetary, fiscal, and debt policy in ensuring a stable macroeconomic environment, external competitiveness, and sustained, inclusive growth.",
    "Approach: Relies on a case study of India to illustrate current macroeconomic challenges and to demonstrate practical tools for use in day-to-day macroeconomic analysis and policymaking.",
    "Policy areas emphasized:",
    "Upon completion, participants should have a basic understanding of:",
    "Participants should be able to better identify:",
    "Climate in Macroeconomic Framework (CMF)",
    "Big Data for Macroeconomic Statistics (BDMS)",
    "Financial Development and Financial Inclusion (FDFI)"
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