Ashgabat, 17 September 2019. The third round of trainings for the teaching staff and students of the International University for the Humanities and Development (IUHD) was organized on the Economic module with the participation of the international expert Mr. Axel Koetz.
The event was organized by the EU funded project “Support for Public Administration Capacity Building in Turkmenistan” in cooperation with the Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan (AoCS) upon the request of the IUHD to share international practices and experiences in economics with the Master’s Degree program lecturers and students.
Mr. Axel Koetz presented the Economic module, which included macroeconomics, microeconomics and mainly, he made an emphasis on public finance. The economic module is considered as a part of the Master’s Degree program, developed for the AoCS. Topics of the presentation raised great interest among the participants; especially they lively discussed taxation methods, public debts, budget planning, and parafiscals. After the training, participants were awarded the certificate of participation. As the project is aimed at enhancing of professional capacities of training institutions, all ideas and suggestions of the participants to organize more trainings for their university were welcomed by the project.