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  "title": "Selected Macroeconomics Issues for Mid-Career IES Officers",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants should preferably have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Mid-level to senior officials in central banks and ministries of finance or economy who are directly involved in diagnosing the state of the macroeconomy and making projections.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should preferably have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience."
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      "content": "- The course covers a broad range of macroeconomic issues.\n- Analytical focus:\n  - The four main macroeconomic sectors: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.\n  - Interlinkages across sectors, including macro-fiscal and macro-financial aspects.\n  - How to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and financial stability risks.\n- Contextual focus:\n  - Theoretical material will be related to the Indian context to deepen understanding of India's present economic opportunities and challenges."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Analyze potential output and calculate output gaps and diagnose the outlook for the Indian economy.\n  - Assess the stance of current fiscal, monetary and exchange rate, and financial policies.\n  - Assess macro-financial linkages and understand some aspects of financial regulation and macro prudential policies.\n  - Assess the medium-term prospects of the economy, especially the sustainability of public and external debt, and identify impediments to long-term growth.\n  - Identify possible external and internal economic risks and vulnerabilities to economic growth and identify policies to address them."
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