Macedonia
In 2003 MMC did win a tender, organized by World Learning, to organize
a training visit of 12 Macedonian economists mainly from Ministry of
Finance (also National Bank and Centre of Economic Analysis) during two
weeks at MMC’s office in the Netherlands. As a preparation MMC
made a test version of a Macroabc model for Macedonia. The mixture of
workshops with every morning another MMC specialist (actually
distinguished experts in daily life working for several institutes like
Ministry of Finance, Planning Office Statistical Office, Central Bank)
and intensive practical training with PC in the afternoon, appeared
very successful and pleasant. This very intensive program was feasible
thanks to a break with a walk to the beach (15 minutes from MMC’s
office) and a lunch discussion meeting at the beach. Thanks to
the mixture of intensive morning sessions by so many specialists and
afternoon training with a Macroabc model bridging between Macedonian
data and a Macroabc model as in use in the Netherlands in budget
preparation and medium term fiscal and economic analysis, the
Macedonian did get in only two weeks an idea how to profit of the Dutch
practice. (The Netherlands did start already in 1947 with macro model
use in CPB, with the first Nobel price winner Dr. Tinbergen as its
first director). See the proceedings paper and the Macroabc
Macedonia by clicking here.
MMC is currently hosting a follow up training visit of the following 5 Macedonian economists:
- Todor Milcevski, Sector for Economic Policies and Regulatory Reform of the Secretariat General of the Government of Macedonia (GoM),
- Marjan Nikolov (*), Center for Economic Analyses (CEA),
- Aleksandar Stojkov (*),Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, University Ss Cyril and Methodius (Un C&M).
- Katerina Suleva, National Bank of Macedonia (NB)
- Filip Blazeski, the Business Environment Activity (BEA), USAID funded project that initiated the training (Observer).
The primary objective of this training is to update the Macroabc-MK model.
>> Click here to read more about Macroabc-MK
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