Thematic Area
Macroeconomic Statistics
This curriculum provides central bank officials, statisticians, policymakers, and financial sector practitioners with both comprehensive knowledge and practical skills essential for compiling, analyzing, and disseminating macroeconomic and financial statistics. Participants gain expertise in applying internationally accepted standards, ensuring that the data they produce are accurate, reliable, and comparable across global benchmarks.
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Learners build foundations in macroeconomic and financial statistics; deepen understanding of the balance sheets of the main sectors of an economy, including the linkages, exposures, and risks; and acquire the knowledge and skills to leverage big data and advanced technologies to enhance macroeconomic monitoring.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from central banks; national statistical organizations; and ministries of finance, economy, or planning working with macroeconomic and financial statistics.
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Foundations in Macroeconomic Statistics Objective: Build a solid foundation in macroeconomic and financial statistics.
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Analyzing Financial Statistics Objective: Deepen understanding of the balance sheets of the main sectors of an economy—financial sector, central government, nonfinancial corporate and household sectors, and external sector—to analyze the linkages, exposures, and risks.
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Big Data Applications Objective: Acquire the knowledge and skills to leverage big data and advanced technologies for generating high-frequency and detailed statistics to enhance macroeconomic monitoring and research in the region.
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This curriculum equips learners with a solid understanding of government finance and public sector debt statistics, providing tools to address complex cross-cutting issues.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from the central banks; ministries of finance, economy, and planning; and statistical organizations whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics and public sector debt statistics.
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Public Sector Statistics Fundamentals Objective: Build a solid foundation in government finance and public sector debt statistics.
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Advanced Public Sector Statistics Objective: Gain a deeper understanding of government finance and public sector debt statistics and addressing complex cross-cutting issues.
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These courses cover the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to national accounts statistics. Participants will learn the compilation techniques of annual and quarterly national accounts and focus on institutional sector accounts.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from central banks and national statistical organizations responsible for compiling national accounts statistics and short-term or monthly economic indicators.
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Fundamentals of National Accounts Statistics Objective: Build a solid foundation in the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to institutional sector accounts and balance sheets. |
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Advanced National Accounts Statistics Objective: Deepen understanding of the compilation of annual and quarterly accounts and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures.
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Specialized National Accounts Statistics Objective: Specialize in institutional sector accounts and balance sheets based on the framework of the national accounts, and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures. |
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Learners explore the international standards of statistical frameworks for the balance of payments, international investment position, and external debt statistics. The curriculum includes specialized courses on cross-border position statistics and statistics on international trade in goods and services.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from central banks and national statistical organizations responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics and familiar with the methodology of the balance of payments, international investment position, and external debt statistics.
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External Sector Statistics Fundamentals Objective: Learn the conceptual statistical frameworks for the balance of payments, international investment position, and external debt statistics. |
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Advanced External Sector Statistics Objective: Deepen understanding of international standards for the compilation and analysis of balance of payments, international investment position, and external debt statistics. |
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Specialized External Sector Statistics Objective: Specialize in cross-border position statistics and statistics on international trade in goods and services based on international standards and practical guides.
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This curriculum covers the concepts and methods required for compiling consumer, producer, export, and import price indexes. It also includes a course on the statistics of residential property price indexes.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from central banks and national statistical organizations responsible for compiling consumer price indexes, producer price indexes, export and import price indexes, and residential property price indexes.
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Price Statistics Fundamentals Objective: Build a solid foundation and a broad understanding of the concepts and methods required for compiling producer and consumer price indexes. |
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Advanced Price Statistics Objective: Deepen understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling consumer, producer, export, and import price statistics. |
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Specialized Price Statistics: Residential Property Price Indexes Objective: Identify the key uses of residential property price indexes, review data sources and methods for compilation, and outline strategic issues for country-specific application. |
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Learners will understand the principles and concepts of the methodology for the collection, compilation, and analytical presentation of monetary statistics and financial soundness indicators. The curriculum covers liquidity aggregates and the compilation of financial corporation surveys for assessing financial sector linkages and vulnerabilities. Participants will understand the concepts of securities statistics in terms of sectorization, valuation, and accounting rules as well as the framework for security-by-security databases.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from central banks and supervisory agencies of the financial sector involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators, monetary statistics, and securities statistics.
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Monetary and Securities Statistics Fundamentals Objective: Learn the principles and concepts of the methodology for the collection, compilation, and analytical presentation of monetary statistics. Learn the concepts, definitions, and methodology for the compilation of financial soundness indicators. |
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Advanced Monetary and Securities Statistics Objective: Gain a deeper understanding of monetary statistics covering nonbank financial corporations. Become familiar with liquidity aggregates and the compilation of financial corporate surveys with the purpose of assessing financial sector linkages and vulnerabilities. Learn the concepts of securities statistics in terms of sectorization, valuation, and accounting rules as well as the framework for security-by-security databases.
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Learners explore data that support the economic aspects of climate change—environmental statistics and the financial, cross-border, and fiscal impact—all with a view to assisting countries in integrating climate in macroeconomic statistics and filling current data gaps for informed policymaking.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Officials from national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, planning and environment bureaus, central banks, supervisory agencies of the financial sector, and other agencies responsible for compiling environment and climate change–related statistics and indicators.
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Key Environmental Data Objective: Understand key climate change data to support more informed policy development.
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Environmental Statistics Analysis Objective: Explore the economic aspects of climate change: environmental statistics, financial and cross-border aspects, and fiscal impact.
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