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  "title": "Applied Economic Policy Course for Indian Economic Service Officers",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants should preferably have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-15",
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    {
      "heading": "Invitation and Logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 25.30\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: June 30, 2025 - July 4, 2025 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English"
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    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Mid-level to senior officials in ministries of finance or economy who are directly involved in diagnosing the state of the macroeconomy, making projections and providing policy inputs.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should preferably have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- The course is designed to strengthen participants' ability to comprehensively assess a country's macroeconomic situation, including:\n  - the current state of the economy;\n  - the stance of fiscal and monetary policy;\n  - financial stability;\n  - vulnerabilities in the different sectors;\n  - the medium-term outlook, including the management and sustainability of public debt.\n- The course also discusses other key policy issues such as the goods and service tax, public debt management, fiscal risks and challenges with compiling statistical data.\n- Emphasis:\n  - Practical tools for use in day-to-day macroeconomic analysis and their application to Indian data.\n  - Use of relevant case studies to illustrate application of tools and contribution to the policymaking process."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Analyze the four main macroeconomic sectors (real, fiscal, external, and monetary) and their interlinkages including macro-fiscal and macro-financial aspects, and how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances.\n  - Assess the stance of current fiscal and monetary policy and fiscal sustainability,\n  - Understand major issues in public debt management in India and the public finances of India and its states.\n  - Understand macro-financial linkages and developments in the financial sector to assess risks to financial stability.\n  - Understand major issues in public financial management and fiscal risks, goods and service tax system in India, and challenges and data gaps in compilation of national accounts in India."
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