## Financial Programming and Policies for IES Probationers

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**Canonical URL:** [Financial Programming and Policies for IES Probationers](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2025/fppsa25-25)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: SA 25.25
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Dates: May 15-23, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English

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### Invitation and Logistics
- Session No.: SA 25.25
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Date: May 15-23, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Target Audience: Official trainees of the recent IES Batch from the Ministry of Finance, India.

### Qualifications and Preparatory Requirements
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience and be proficient in the use of spreadsheets.
- It is strongly recommended that applicants complete the online FPP courses (FPP.1 x and FFP.2 x) before enrolling in this course.

### Course Description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- Explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.
- Covers the principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.
- Highlights both accounting and behavioral relationships and uses data from a country case study.
- Emphasizes a hands-on, Excel-based framework.

### Course Objectives
- Analyze economic and financial developments of a country in the region using historical data and a hands-on, Excel-based framework.
- Create consistent one-year macroeconomic projections on the assumption that policies do not change (i.e. the baseline scenario).
- Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in a baseline scenario and policy measures to address them.
- Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.
- Identify further policy goals and measures beyond the one-year horizon that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2025/fppsa25-25_