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  "title": "Virtual : Monetary and Financial Statistics - Advanced (MFS-A)",
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  "summary": "Virtual : Monetary and Financial Statistics - Advanced Training Program Target Audience Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2023-04-20",
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    {
      "heading": "Program overview",
      "content": "- Training Program: Monetary and Financial Statistics - Advanced\n- Session No.: AT 23.05 V\n- Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Date: February 13-24, 2023 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Virtual Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Portuguese\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.\n  - Previous completion of the Monetary and Financial Statistics - Introductory (MFS-I) course in person or virtual is recommended."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and content focus",
      "content": "- Course presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Basis: Material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).\n- Assumed prior knowledge: Participants are assumed to already understand the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course).\n- Core content:\n  - Fundamentals of compiling monetary statistics with special attention to other financial corporations (OFCs).\n  - Characteristics of various OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.), their typical balance sheet structure, and their role in the financial sector.\n  - Overview of financial statistics and national accounts:\n    - Financial flows and stocks of all sectors of the domestic economy and their interactions with the rest of the world.\n    - The balance sheet approach to vulnerability analysis.\n    - Relationships between monetary, balance of payments, government finance, and national accounts statistics.\n- Pedagogy:\n  - Lectures and case studies to familiarize participants with practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics for OFCs and basic principles underlying compilation of national accounts.\n  - Culminating activity: Participants are expected to make a short presentation on monetary statistics compilation issues in their own countries."
    },
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe the role of OFCs in the financial sector and the related implications of data collection for monetary statistics purposes.\n- Distinguish between different types of OFCs.\n- Compile OFC monetary statistics according to IMF standardized report form 4 SR for OFCs.\n- Apply the main principles of financial statistics and national accounts."
    }
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    "Training Program: Monetary and Financial Statistics - Advanced",
    "Session No.: AT 23.05 V",
    "Location: Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Date: February 13-24, 2023 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Virtual Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Interpretation Language: Portuguese",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Course presented by the Statistics Department.",
    "Basis: Material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).",
    "Assumed prior knowledge: Participants are assumed to already understand the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course).",
    "Core content:",
    "Pedagogy:",
    "Describe the role of OFCs in the financial sector and the related implications of data collection for monetary statistics purposes.",
    "Distinguish between different types of OFCs.",
    "Compile OFC monetary statistics according to IMF standardized report form 4 SR for OFCs.",
    "Apply the main principles of financial statistics and national accounts."
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