Here's a fact that surprises a lot of people: in any economy, one person's spending is literally another person's income. That simple loop — spend, earn, borrow, repay — is what drives growth, and it's also what creates the boom-and-bust rhythm we call the economic cycle.

This Training Course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy unpacks that mechanism step by step: how rising income enables more borrowing, how more borrowing fuels more spending, and how understanding this loop lets you read where an economy is heading — and respond to it — before the shift catches you off guard.

Who this training course is for:

• Students of economics and business administration.
• Anyone with an interest in the stock market.
• Investors who want to understand how the economic cycle actually moves.
• Professionals whose roles require a working knowledge of how the economy behaves.

What participants take away:

• The elements that make up the economic cycle, and how governments influence it.
• What drives mass unemployment during a downturn.
• How laws, human behaviour, and regulation shape lending.
• How to tell long-term loans apart from short-term ones, and allocate resources to get the most out of each.
• How borrowing, used well, can actually help generate economic growth.

Module 1: The Shape of an Economic Cycle

• Boom and bust: recognising the phases of the cycle.
• Recession versus recovery — and telling a real recovery from a false one.

Module 2: What Drives the Cycle

• How borrowing and spending push the cycle forward.
• Capital consumption and its role in the cycle.

Module 3: Growth, Sustainability, and the Bigger Picture

• The concept of economic growth and how to sustain it.
• Reading the total economy at the macro level.