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  "summary": "External Debt Statistics - Intermediate Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-10",
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      "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 expected of participants:\n  - A degree in economics, statistics, or equivalent experience.\n  - Basic knowledge of international accounts concepts.\n  - A minimum of one year of experience in compiling external debt statistics (EDS) or IIP statistics."
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      "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  - Offer practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS, and on analysis of these data, taking into account relevant developments in the global financial market.\n- Instructional components:\n  - Lectures, practical exercises, and case studies.\n- Thematic 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 and ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics, namely 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."
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      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "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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