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Sesion 1. Welcome and overview of fiscal decentralization / Jamie Boex and Ross Rubenstein -- Session 2. Overview of principles of budgeting and financial management; using spreadsheets to construct budgets / Ross Rubenstein -- Checklist : Diagnosing the weakness and improving budgetary and financial management in the public sector, adapted from the World Bank's public expenditure management handbook -- Session 3. Lecture and discussion : recent developments in fiscal management / David Shand, World Bank -- Aggregate fiscal discipline / Allen Schick -- Session 4. Linking policy, planning and budgeting in a medium-term / The world Bank -- Budget formats and budget systems : Line-item to performance based / Ross Rubenstein -- Using adjusted performance measures for evaluating resource use / Leanna Stiefel, Ross Rubenstein and Any Ellen Schwartz -- Session 5. Workshop : Developing program and performance budgets / Ross Rubenstein -- Session 6. Implementing PBB : conflicting views of success / Katherine Willoughby and Julia Melkers -- Session 7. Lecture and workshop : capital budgeting and cost-benefit analysis (continued from morning session) preparation of participant projects -- Ross Rubenstein -- Session 8. Site visit : legislative budget office / Ross Rubenstein and Kelly Edmiston -- Session 9. Lecture and workshop: Assessing fiscal capacity / Ross Rubenstein -- Session 10. Lecture : overview of fiscal analysis and revenue forecasting / Kelly Edmiston -- Session 11. Introduction to statistics and fiscal analysis / Shif Gurmu and Mary Beth Walker -- Session 12. Preparation of participants projects / Kelly Edmiston -- Session 13. Forecasting notes using econometric views, section V: non-stationary series / Mary Beth Walker -- Forecasting notes using econometric views, section III. Forecasing models - ARMA models / Mary Beth Walker -- Forecasting notes using econometric views, Section IV: Economic models / Mary Beth Walker -- Microsimulation modeling techniques / Robert M. McNab -- Forecasting notes using econometric views, Section I. Introduction and preliminary analysis / Mary Beth Walker -- Appendix : an overview of statistics and regression analysis using econometric views -- Forecasting notes using econometric views, Section VI: Technical appendix A & B / Mary Beth Walker -- Forecasting notes using econometric views, Section II: forecasting methods : extrapolation and exponential smoothing / Mary Beth Walker -- Session 14. Lecture and workshop : Micro-simulation models I. / Robert McNab -- Session 15. Workshop: Econometrics II: regression analysis (Economic models) / Shif Gurmu and Mary Beth Walker -- Session 16. Lecture and workshop : micro-simulation models II / Robert McNab -- Session 17 Workshop : Econometric III. time series analysis / Kelly Edmiston -- Session 18. Participant presentations and presentation of certificates / Jorge Martinez and Kelly Edmiston