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  "title": "Virtual : External Debt Statistics (EDS)",
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  "summary": "Virtual : External Debt Statistics Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Event: Virtual training on External Debt Statistics (EDS).\n- Session No.: AT 22.27 V.\n- Location: Ebene, Mauritius.\n- Date: May 23-27, 2022 (1 week).\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training.\n- Primary Language: English.\n- Interpretation Language: French.\n- Status: Deadline passed.\n- Organizer: IMF Statistics Department."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Expected to have a degree in economics, statistics, or equivalent experience.\n  - Basic knowledge of international accounts concepts.\n  - Minimum of one year of experience in compiling external debt statistics (EDS) or IIP statistics."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — content and pedagogical approach",
      "content": "- Purpose:\n  - Provide 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).\n- Topics and practical coverage:\n  - Recent developments in the global financial market (e.g., process of disintermediation, moving away from traditional cross-border investment vehicles, etc.) and their effect on EDS compilation.\n  - Implementation of the 2013 EDS Guide.\n  - Ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics: balance of payments, IIP, government finance statistics, and national accounts.\n  - Data dissemination and requirements of the World Bank's Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database.\n- Methods:\n  - Series of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies.\n  - Practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS.\n  - Guidance on analysis of EDS taking into account relevant developments in the global financial market."
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      "heading": "Course objectives and expected competencies",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Describe recent developments that affect EDS.\n  - Apply the conceptual framework for the compilation of EDS following the 2013 EDS Guide.\n  - Identify data gaps and set up a strategy for improving the EDS compilation.\n  - Describe linkages of EDS with other macroeconomic datasets."
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