Training Program

Officials at central banks, ministry of finance and other agencies in charge of: compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics; and/or overseeing macro-financial analysis.

Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.

IMF Statistics Department (STA) has developed a user-friendly tool to automatically combine monetary, government and balance of payment data reported to STA to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis.  Once the matrix is generated, country officials would be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities such as excessive reliance in external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis.