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  "title": "Youth in Japan Tries Out IMF-style Economic Surveillance at Virtual Workshop",
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  "summary": "The 9th Macroeconomist Training Program, offered by the IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, was conducted virtually for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.",
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      "heading": "Workshop overview",
      "content": "- Event date and location: July 14, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.\n- Format: Week-long online workshop conducted virtually for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n- Course: 9th Macroeconomist Training Program offered by the IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific."
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      "content": "- Number of participants: \"About 20 students attending university in Japan completed last night a week-long online workshop\" and \"Eighteen students and one young professional joined the workshop this time and attended nightly online lectures.\"\n- Participant composition: university students and one young professional.\n- Daily structure: Nightly online lectures throughout the week.\n- Final activity: Participants were divided into four groups and made group presentations on the pros and cons of the Maldives' economic policies that respond to the pandemic."
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      "heading": "Program history, reach, and objectives",
      "content": "- Program initiation: The program was initiated in 2017 to reach out to the youth and provide an opportunity to learn how the IMF conducts bilateral economic surveillance at an overnight workshop.\n- Cumulative delivery: The regional office has to date offered nine workshops to a total of 197 students and young professionals from 35 countries."
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      "heading": "Final group work and topics",
      "content": "- Group count: Four groups.\n- Case study focus: The pros and cons of the Maldives' economic policies that respond to the pandemic.\n- Purpose of final presentations: Practical application of IMF-style economic surveillance techniques learned during the workshop."
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    "Number of participants: \"About 20 students attending university in Japan completed last night a week-long online workshop\" and \"Eighteen students and one young professional joined the workshop this time and attended nightly online lectures.\"",
    "Participant composition: university students and one young professional.",
    "Daily structure: Nightly online lectures throughout the week.",
    "Final activity: Participants were divided into four groups and made group presentations on the pros and cons of the Maldives' economic policies that respond to the pandemic.",
    "Program initiation: The program was initiated in 2017 to reach out to the youth and provide an opportunity to learn how the IMF conducts bilateral economic surveillance at an overnight workshop.",
    "Cumulative delivery: The regional office has to date offered nine workshops to a total of 197 students and young professionals from 35 countries.",
    "Group count: Four groups.",
    "Case study focus: The pros and cons of the Maldives' economic policies that respond to the pandemic.",
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    "**The 9th Macroeconomist Training Program, July 7-13 2020**"
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