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  "title": "Fiscal Policy Analysis (FPA) — Training Program (Session No.: ST 26.27)",
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  "summary": "Fiscal Policy Analysis Training Program Fiscal Policy Analysis (FPA) Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-11-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Program logistics and target participants",
      "content": "- Session No.: ST 26.27\n- Location: Singapore, Singapore\n- Date: November 30, 2026 - December 11, 2026 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Target audience:\n  - Junior to senior officials in finance or economics ministries, fiscal councils and central banks\n  - Officials engaged in policy planning, evaluation and research\n  - Officials interested in assessing fiscal policy and its macroeconomic implications"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Participant qualifications and technical requirements",
      "content": "- Expected background:\n  - Undergraduate courses in macroeconomics or equivalent experience\n  - Basic background in microeconomics and econometrics\n- Technical requirement:\n  - Familiarity with Microsoft Excel is essential (many workshops are conducted in Excel)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and pedagogical approach",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Overview of concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze how fiscal policy can help ensure macroeconomic stability and sustainable long-term growth.\n- Hands-on, built around core macro-fiscal topics needed to analyze fiscal policy.\n- Learning modalities:\n  - General empirical findings\n  - Microsoft Excel-based workshops\n  - Case studies\n  - Selected topics of regional interest\n  - Review sessions and participant presentations\n- Integrates post-COVID data, recent research, and policy discussions by the Fund.\n- Inclusive growth component with new units on:\n  - Climate change\n  - Gender inequality\n- Selected non-core lectures on:\n  - Energy subsidy reform\n  - Fiscal frameworks for resource-rich economies"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and analytical skills imparted",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Use fiscal policy to attain key government objectives: macro-stability, equity and efficiency, and sustainable long-term growth.\n  - Apply tools and techniques to assess:\n    - The country's fiscal stance\n    - Fiscal multipliers\n    - Fiscal sustainability\n  - Assess key elements of tax and expenditure policy, including revenue mobilization and fiscal projection."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Key features and emphasis",
      "content": "- Emphasis on practical skill-building through Excel workshops.\n- Incorporation of recent Fund discussions and post-COVID empirical evidence.\n- Focus on inclusive growth and cross-cutting issues (climate change, gender).\n- Availability of non-core modules addressing energy subsidy reform and resource-rich fiscal frameworks."
    }
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    "Location: Singapore, Singapore",
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    "Primary Language: English",
    "Target audience:",
    "Expected background:",
    "Technical requirement:",
    "Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
    "Overview of concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze how fiscal policy can help ensure macroeconomic stability and sustainable long-term growth.",
    "Hands-on, built around core macro-fiscal topics needed to analyze fiscal policy.",
    "Learning modalities:",
    "Integrates post-COVID data, recent research, and policy discussions by the Fund.",
    "Inclusive growth component with new units on:",
    "Selected non-core lectures on:",
    "Upon completion, participants should be able to:",
    "Emphasis on practical skill-building through Excel workshops.",
    "Incorporation of recent Fund discussions and post-COVID empirical evidence.",
    "Focus on inclusive growth and cross-cutting issues (climate change, gender).",
    "Availability of non-core modules addressing energy subsidy reform and resource-rich fiscal frameworks."
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