Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate
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- Session: ST 25.10
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Dates: January 13-24, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Qualifications
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics and at least two years of relevant compilation experience, or should have completed the Compilation of Balance of Payments Statistics (BPSCG) course.
Target Audience
- Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics), and who are familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).
Course description
- Presented by the Statistics Department, targets compilers with a certain degree of experience in the compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP.
- Aims at providing a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application for addressing complex methodological issues.
- The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts.
- Consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences.
- Emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities.
- Examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in global economy, and provides participants the opportunity to discuss how these impact compilation work.
- Specific exercises are geared to integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Apply knowledge gained in dealing with complex methodological and compilation issues related to balance of payments and IIP statistics.
- Describe the high-level themes that are being addressed during the current update of BPM6.
- Identify potential data sources and compilation techniques to be used to improve the coverage in ESS of activities emerging from globalization.
- Describe the analytical uses of balance of payments and IIP statistics.