Washington DC, 15 August 2022 (TDI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF) has offered the monetary, macroeconomics, financial, fiscal, statistical, and legal core areas as courses.
This was shared in a tweet by IMF Capacity Development. Subjects like Growth, Climate Change, Governance, Gender, and Digitalization will also be offered as courses. Kuwait is the host country for this training program.
The IMF Middle East Center for Economics and Finance offers courses on core areas of macroeconomics, fiscal, financial, monetary, statistical, & legal topics. It also covers macrocritical growth areas like inclusive growth, gender, climate change, governance, and digitalization.
— IMF Capacity Development (@imfcapdev) August 14, 2022
To improve the capability and standard of economic policymaking in the region, the IMF-CEF trains scholars. The offered courses will focus on economics along with advancing them in the 22 Arab League member countries.
Furthermore, the IMF-CEF shared the content that will illustrate the details of coursework that will be provided to member states between May and July 2022.
Aside from that, the training program will include classes that promote the core curriculum subjects of macroeconomics, fiscal policy, money and finance, statistics, and law.
Moreover, it will address macro critical growth areas such as sustainability and inclusion, democratic accountability, and digital economy.
In addition to its course offerings, the Center hosts conferences and trainings to communicate cutting-edge and developing policy issues.
It is pertinent to note that the 190 nations that make up the International Monetary Fund (IMF) strive for sustainable growth and prosperity.
Likewise, in order to enhance efficiency, employment availability, and institutional well-being, IMF works to boost business policies.
These policies are made for the development and encouragement of monetary cooperation and economic security. Besides, the member nations of the IMF are in charge of it and are responsible for them.
IMF-CEF: An Overview
The Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (IMF-CEF), which is being sponsored and hosted by the State of Kuwait, is the IMF’s regional training ground for Arab nations. 2011 saw the beginning of operations, and 2014 saw its formal opening.
Adding to that, the IMF-CEF offers a comprehensive strategy for capacity building, to more effectively align support with regional priorities.
While doing so, the Center promoted peer-to-peer knowledge acquisition and unified its training program with the policy requirements of participating countries. Also, it worked in close coordination with local stakeholders.
