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  "title": "Financial Programming and Policies",
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  "summary": "Financial Programming and Policies Training Program Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience and be proficient in the use of spreadsheets.",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-18",
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    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience and be proficient in the use of spreadsheets.\n- It is strongly recommended that applicants complete the online FPP courses (FPP.1 x and FFP.2 x) before enrolling in this course."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Explains how to diagnose macroeconomic imbalances and correct them through a coordinated set of adjustment policies.\n- Covers the principal features of the four main macroeconomic sectors: real, fiscal, external, and monetary.\n- Highlights both accounting and behavioral relationships and uses data from a country case study.\n- Uses a hands-on, Excel-based framework for analysis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Analyze economic and financial developments of a country in the region using historical data and a hands-on, Excel-based framework.\n- Create consistent one-year macroeconomic projections on the assumption that policies do not change (i.e. the baseline scenario).\n- Identify economic vulnerabilities and risks in a baseline scenario and policy measures to address them.\n- Prepare an adjustment scenario that reflects the policy measures and their macroeconomic impact.\n- Identify further policy goals and measures beyond the one-year horizon that will be incorporated into a medium-term framework."
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    "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.",
    "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.",
    "Uses a hands-on, Excel-based framework for analysis.",
    "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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