MACRO I - Macroeconomics Basics and IMF Financial Programming virtual Training

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: 6 - 8 February 2024. 

The registration for the course on EU Learn will close on February 1st, 2024.

Course Material

The slides are downloadable in the section below ( Some additional readings are under the " Other languages" section)