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Advanced Training in Economic Analysis and Management - Fiscal Management

From

15
9:00 am May 2017

To

19
5:00 pm May 2017

OCP Policy Center, Rabat.

Fiscal policy formulation and Fiscal Management are influenced by the macroeconomic context that a country faces, but it also influences macroeconomic outcomes in a country. The course starts with topics related to macro-fiscal policy such as measuring the fiscal stance, fiscal multipliers, and fiscal projections as we well as assessing debt sustainability, then moves to expenditure and tax policy.

Objectives :

• Understand how fiscal policy is linked to the rest of the economy and to the rest of the world;
• Discuss the role of fiscal policy in attaining the key objectives of the government: macro-stability, equity and efficiency and sustainable long -term growth;
• Use the tools and techniques to assess the fiscal stance, fiscal multipliers and debt sustainabilit;
• Review the key elements of tax and expenditure policy as well as budget planning: concepts and best practices.

Speakers
Romain Rancière
Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund
Romain Rancière is Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (Institute for Capacity and Development) and Professor of Economics (on leave) at Paris School of Economics. He will be joining the faculty at University of Southern California in January 2017 as a Professor of Economics. Romain Rancière obtained his PhD in Economics from NYU in 2003 following undergraduate studies in Economics and Philosophy at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. ...