Thematic Area
Fiscal Issues
This curriculum equips learners with the theoretical and practical skills to design, analyze, and implement effective fiscal and tax policies. Covering areas such as fiscal analysis, tax administration, public debt management, and public financial management, courses offer insights into complex topics such as labor market informality, fuel subsidy reforms, inequality, and climate change.
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Equips learners with the theoretical knowledge and practical tools to design, analyze, and implement effective fiscal and tax policies that promote macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth while addressing contemporary challenges such as inequality and informality. Courses cover a broad spectrum of topics including fiscal analysis, policy frameworks, informality in labor markets, and reforming fuel subsidies.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials in ministries of finance, economy, planning, central banks, and other independent fiscal agencies seeking to enhance their expertise in fiscal policy analysis, design, and implementation.
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Foundational Knowledge in Fiscal Analysis Objective: Gain essential knowledge and skills for analyzing fiscal policy, and use tools and techniques to assess a country’s fiscal stance, fiscal multipliers, and debt sustainability. |
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Practical Applications: Fiscal Frameworks and Revenue Forecasting Objective: Further explore fiscal and tax policy design and implementation, focusing on practical tools and quantitative methods. |
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Specialized Fiscal Policy Challenges Objective: Tackle complex policy issues while tailoring solutions to specific economic contexts. |
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Provides analytical frameworks and practical tools for understanding public debt dynamics, conducting debt sustainability analyses, modeling public debt dynamics under uncertainty, and evaluating the macroeconomic impacts of public investments and PPPs. Learners will be equipped to inform policy decisions that ensure fiscal stability and sustainable debt levels.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for providing advice or implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.
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Fiscal Sustainability Fundamentals Objective: Gain foundational knowledge and essential. |
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Advanced Public Debt Dynamics Objective: More thoroughly understand public debt and investment relationships. |
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Debt Sustainability Specialized Frameworks Objective: Explore debt sustainability frameworks for low-income and market access countries. |
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Offers an overview of public financial management (PFM) systems and budgeting frameworks to achieve key macroeconomic objectives such as achieving macroeconomic stability and inclusive growth, identifying and mitigating fiscal risks, and improving institutions and governance.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from ministries of finance, treasuries, debt management offices, and other government offices involved in public financial management and assessing and managing fiscal risks.
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PFM Fundamentals Objective: Explore an overview of public financial management systems and budgeting frameworks. |
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Practical Implications: Medium-Term Budgeting, Fiscal Transparency and Risks Objective: Analyze medium-term budgeting, fiscal risks, and the role of fiscal transparency and governance.
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Specialized PFM Topics Objective: Specialize in niche areas such as state-owned enterprises, the fight against corruption, gender budgeting, and legal frameworks.
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Offers methodologies and practical tools essential for effective tax administration operations. Learners will be trained on how to apply the IMF’s diagnostic tools like TADAT and the VAT Gap Estimation Model, plan and implement tax administration reforms, manage compliance risks, introduce organizational changes, and enhance taxpayer services. Following best practices, learners can adapt the lessons to their own context to improve operational efficiency, increase revenue performance, and build trust in the tax system.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from domestic tax and revenue administrations, ministries of finance and economy, or equivalent seeking to enhance their expertise in key tax and revenue issues.
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Tax Administration: Methodologies and Practical Tools Objective: Use methodologies, practical tools, and a review of international best practices aimed at improving efficiency, governance, and compliance in tax systems. |
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Analytical Framework: Tax Gap Analysis Objective: Further explore tax gap and revenue performance analyses. |