MACRO I - Macroeconomics Basics and IMF Financial Programming
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This virtual training is meant for specialists working on macroeconomic analysis, and especially in Low-Income Countries (LICs) and Emerging Markets (EMs).
Training Objectives
- To provide participants with an understanding of the main concepts in context of Low-Income Countries (LICs) and Emerging Markets (EMs)
- To help participants understand macro relations in open economies, general macroeconomic analysis, and macro imbalances.
- To help participants acquire understanding of principal features of 4 main macroeconomic sectors and the interrelations between them.
- To provide participants with broad knowledge of IMF financial programming and policies (IMF FPP)To help participants how to read, interpret, analyses macro tables in IMF reports (Art. IV and Programs)
- To familiarize participants with the relevant sources of macroeconomic data and information.
- To provide the participants with reference documentation they can use to meet the objectives listed above.
Course Content
This 3-day virtual training shall focus on the following:
- Basic Macroeconomic concepts – Introduction
- IMF Approach to Macroeconomics and Introduction to Financial Programming
- Real Sector
- External sector - Balance of payments
- Governmental sector and Fiscal policy
- Public Debt Sustainability Analysis - the IMF/WB DSF
- Monetary and Financial sector Interrelationships among Macroeconomic Accounts
- IMF FPP in practice: How to read, analyse, interpret IMF Staff Reports (SR)—Case Study
Upcoming dates: 13 - 15 September 2023.
The registration for the course on EU Learn is now closed.
Course Material
The slide presentation is available in the section below.
Related documents
MACRO I presentation - September 2023
English (3.08 MB - PDF)