Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai

Programme Overview

Macroeconomic stabilization demands rigorous fiscal planning and quantitative forecasting, particularly when governments rationalise universal subsidies.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ This programme provides Ministry of Finance economists, fiscal analysts, and central planning teams with operational techniques to assess macro-fiscal vulnerability scenarios. Participants examine the transmission channels of fiscal consolidation, learning to safeguard macroeconomic stability while restructuring expenditure profiles. The curriculum applies standard macroeconomic accounting identities and debt sustainability frameworks to ensure fiscal measures align with national stabilization goals.

The course focuses on modelling exchange-rate pass-through risks and their cascading impact on domestic price levels, subsidy commitments, and government expenditure. Delegates explore structural adjustment mechanics, analysing how currency adjustments influence national budgets and fiscal balances. Through applied quantitative exercises, fiscal planners examine methods to sequence policy interventions, mitigate revenue shocks, and prevent public debt destabilisation. The training delivers practical approaches to stress-testing public finance baselines under volatile external and domestic conditions.

Participants also examine compensatory spending mechanisms and social protection frameworks required to mitigate reform costs for vulnerable demographics. Attendees evaluate policy matrices to design targeted transfers, monitor welfare impacts, and manage fiscal risks during subsidy phase-outs. Held in Dubai, this five-day executive training equips public sector practitioners with empirical tools to draft, coordinate, and execute policy operations that maintain macroeconomic stability, balance primary accounts, and sustain economic resilience.

Public finance authorities face intense pressure to eliminate distortionary price support mechanisms while managing inflation, debt service costs, and exchange-rate instability.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ This course addresses these operational demands, supporting policy managers who handle large-scale structural reform packages such as the US$1500m Nigeria Reforms for Economic Stabilization to Enable Transformation (RESET) Development Policy Financing. Economists must urgently design credible compensatory measures, evaluate multi-sector policy matrices, and forecast medium-term fiscal trajectories to execute stabilization interventions without destabilising vulnerable populations.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Macroeconomic accounting identities and sovereign fiscal balance frameworks
• Assessing the structural composition of recurrent expenditure and universal price supports
• Baseline forecasting techniques for domestic revenues, petroleum receipts, and public spending
• Evaluating fiscal vulnerabilities using standard medium-term expenditure frameworks
• Practical lab: Auditing baseline macro-fiscal data and establishing primary balance targets
• Mechanisms of foreign exchange unification and domestic price transmission channels
• Modelling exchange-rate pass-through coefficients to consumer and producer prices
• Assessing the direct and indirect impacts of currency realignment on public procurement budgets
• Budget preparation and execution
• Financial reporting and accounting standards
• Cash and treasury management
• Internal control over payments and assets

It is designed for ministry of finance macro-fiscal policy analysts and economists, national budget office directors and medium-term expenditure planners, central bank monetary policy and macroeconomic research officers and others who want practical, current skills in public financial management and finance.

The Growing Importance of Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai

Sound financial management is the basis for credible budgets, timely payments and clean audits. Governments and financiers expect accurate reporting, disciplined budget execution and transparent use of funds.

Changes in reporting standards, digital payment systems and financier requirements mean finance teams must keep their skills current. Strong financial management also frees time and money for the services that matter.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Prepare and execute budgets in line with plans
• Produce accurate, timely financial reports
• Apply controls over payments and assets
• Meet financier financial management requirements
• Use financial information to support decisions

Strong public financial management and finance systems help organisations:

• Improve budget credibility and execution
• Produce reliable reports and clean audits
• Reduce payment delays and errors
• Build trust with financiers and oversight bodies

This Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Ministry of finance macro-fiscal policy analysts and economists
• National budget office directors and medium-term expenditure planners
• Central bank monetary policy and macroeconomic research officers
• Debt management office specialists evaluating contingent liabilities
• Public expenditure review teams and fiscal reform committee members
• Social protection directors coordinating targeted cash transfer programmes
• National planning commission specialists handling policy matrix coordination
• Technical advisers managing development policy operations and structural reforms
• Revenue authority forecasting experts and fiscal intelligence analysts
• Finance managers and accountants
• Budget officers and analysts
• Treasury and cash management staff

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training, participants will be able to:

• Construct baseline macro-fiscal projection models incorporating subsidy expenditure and revenue trajectories
• Quantify exchange-rate pass-through risks on domestic consumer prices and government procurement obligations
• Evaluate policy matrices for development policy operations across fiscal and social protection sectors
• Design targeted compensatory spending frameworks to cushion lower-income households during price adjustments
• Stress-test sovereign debt sustainability under alternative fiscal consolidation and subsidy removal pathways
• Sequence medium-term structural reform benchmarks to minimise economic disruption and protect vulnerable segments
• Formulate transparent fiscal reporting mechanisms aligned with international public financial management standards
• Explain the budget cycle and the role of each actor
• Prepare and monitor budgets linked to plans
• Apply the main principles of the relevant reporting standards

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training Methodology

The programme employs applied macroeconomic modelling, fiscal scenario simulations, and policy matrix reviews.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Participants work directly with structured spreadsheets to evaluate fiscal consolidation cases and exchange-rate shocks. Delivery combines analytical presentations with collaborative policy labs, where delegates interpret empirical datasets, examine diagnostic templates, and draft medium-term reform pathways relevant to their national institutions.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training, participants will be able to:

• Ability to build macroeconomic projection models that incorporate fiscal consolidation shocks
• Enhanced competency in calculating exchange-rate pass-through to inflation and public expenditure
• Practical skill in designing targeted compensatory social spending packages within fiscal caps
• Proficiency in aligning structural fiscal benchmarks with multilateral development policy matrices
• Capacity to run sovereign debt sustainability stress tests under varied subsidy removal timelines
• Clear institutional strategies for inter-agency coordination between ministries of finance and planning bodies
• Prepare and monitor budgets linked to plans
• Produce accurate financial reports

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Budget preparation and execution
• Financial reporting
• Payment and cash controls
• Donor financial management
• Audit readiness

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Budget monitoring
• Interim financial reports
• Reconciliations
• Asset management
• Audit follow-up

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply public financial management and finance within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in public financial management and finance increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on public financial management and finance. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to public financial management and finance that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Dubai, United Arab Emirates brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how public financial management and finance is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – United Arab Emirates

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Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Readiness Assessment
• Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai Training Manual
• Budget Monitoring Template
• Interim Financial Report Template
• Reconciliation Checklist
• Audit Preparation Checklist
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Financial Management Self-Assessment
• Payment Control Checklist
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions prepare and execute budgets in line with plans?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Day 1: Macro-Fiscal Vulnerability Diagnostics and Baseline Accounting), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions produce accurate, timely financial reports?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Day 2: Modelling Exchange-Rate Pass-Through and Price Dynamics), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions apply controls over payments and assets?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Day 3: Subsidy Phase-Out Mechanics and Debt Sustainability Analysis), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions meet financier financial management requirements?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Day 4: Compensatory Spending Frameworks and Social Safety Nets), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions use financial information to support decisions?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Day 5: Policy Matrix Sequencing and Structural Reform Implementation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Macro-Fiscal Stabilization Modelling and Medium-Term Subsidy Removal in Dubai programme take place?

It runs from 15 Feb 2027 to 19 Feb 2027, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for ministry of finance macro-fiscal policy analysts and economists, national budget office directors and medium-term expenditure planners, central bank monetary policy and macroeconomic research officers, debt management office specialists evaluating contingent liabilities, and others who want practical skills in public financial management and finance.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in public financial management and finance?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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