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Designed for officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt statistics.
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Participants should have a degree in economics or equivalent.
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The course is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the conceptual framework for the compilation of external debt statistics and with practical guidance on the collection and analysis of these data. It comprises lectures, practical exercises, and case studies. The text for the course is the External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (Debt Guide).
The course covers
(1) the conceptual framework for compiling the range of external debt data series recommended in the Debt Guide and how they relate to the principles of balance of payments, international investment position, government finance, and national accounts methodology;
(2) practical guidance in the compilation of external debt data for the public and private sectors, including the institutional arrangements for the compilation of these data and international sources of external debt statistics;
(3) the requirements for external debt statistics under the IMF's data dissemination standards, including the World Bank's quarterly external debt statistics (QEDS) database;
(4) the interrelation of external debt statistics with the public sector debt template; and
(5) the various uses of external debt statistics and methods of data quality control, including case studies on the implementation of the IMF's Data Quality Assessment Framework for external debt statistics, and lectures on debt restructuring and debt sustainability analysis.
Participants from each country represented are expected to prepare a short paper in advance on external debt compilation in their own country, for discussion during the course.
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