IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP)
Scholarships for Government Officials
News: Online application system for the partnership track of the Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Asia 2009-2010 is open.
About the Programs
The IMF, in cooperation with the governments of Australia and Japan, has been administering two IMF Scholarship Programs for Asia since the 1990s. The objective of the programs is to enhance the financial and economic policymaking capacity of governments in Asia and the Pacific to promote high-quality and sustainable growth in the region through training government officials.
The programs provide scholarships for promising junior government officials of key economic agencies with potential for becoming future policymakers in their countries and who want to study graduate-level macroeconomics or a related field in Australia or Japan.
For more details, see the following:
Australia-IMF Scholarship Program for Asia (AISPA)
The AISPA will end in July 2009, and it will no longer accept applications.
Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Asia (JISPA)
The application deadline for the partnership-track in the 2009-2010 academic year is December 10, 2008.
Download: JISPA Brochure 
Alumni (AISPA and JISPA)
For Japanese nationals who want to study economics at the doctorate level at a leading university in North America, please visit Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies.
