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  "title": "External Debt Statistics (EDSx)",
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  "summary": "External Debt Statistics Training Program External Debt Statistics (EDSx) This course is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).",
  "publishDate": "2025-07-29",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The course is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).\n- Coverage includes basic concepts, definitions, and classifications; economic territory; units; institutional sectors; residency; principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) relevant for compilation of EDS.\n- The course also briefs participants on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.\n- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling external accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or integrated international investment position (IIP) statistics.\n  - Open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP.\n  - Basic-level course laying the foundation for the advanced EDS course.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Explain the framework for external sector statistics.\n- Apply methods for measurement of external debt from the debtor’s perspective and their accounting principles.\n- Review the presentation of EDS.\n- Define the debt reorganization and review the four types of debt reorganization.\n- Understand liabilities and contingent liabilities in macroeconomic statistics.\n- Comprehend the objective of debt sustainability analysis framework as well as factors that affect an economy’s debt sustainability."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Coverage and technical focus",
      "content": "- Standards base: 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).\n- Key technical topics:\n  - Concepts, definitions, and classifications for EDS and IIP.\n  - Economic territory, units, institutional sectors, and residency concepts.\n  - Principal accounting rules for EDS, including valuation and time of recording.\n  - Measurement methods for external debt from the debtor’s perspective.\n  - Debt reorganization types and treatment.\n  - Liabilities and contingent liabilities in macroeconomic statistics.\n  - Foundational concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework."
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    "The course is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).",
    "Coverage includes basic concepts, definitions, and classifications; economic territory; units; institutional sectors; residency; principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) relevant for compilation of EDS.",
    "The course also briefs participants on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.",
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    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Explain the framework for external sector statistics.",
    "Apply methods for measurement of external debt from the debtor’s perspective and their accounting principles.",
    "Review the presentation of EDS.",
    "Define the debt reorganization and review the four types of debt reorganization.",
    "Understand liabilities and contingent liabilities in macroeconomic statistics.",
    "Comprehend the objective of debt sustainability analysis framework as well as factors that affect an economy’s debt sustainability.",
    "Standards base: 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).",
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