Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate
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- Session: CE 25.19
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: June 15-26, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
- Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics).
- Participants should be familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).
- Qualifications:
- Expected to have a degree in economics or statistics and at least two years of relevant compilation experience, or
- Should have completed the Compilation of Balance of Payments Statistics course.
Course description and structure
- Presented by the Statistics Department.
- Level: Intermediate — presupposes familiarity with basic balance of payments and IIP concepts; does not cover basic concepts.
- Format:
- Series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component.
- Designed to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences.
- Emphases:
- Deep understanding of concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics.
- Application of methodology to address complex methodological issues.
- Topics addressed during the current update of BPM6 will be elaborated.
- Specific focus on estimating informal cross-border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities.
- Examination of themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy and their impact on compilation work.
- Integration:
- Exercises geared to integrate data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice.
- Exercises demonstrate analytical uses of ESS.
Course objectives
- Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Apply knowledge gained in dealing with complex methodological and compilation issues related to balance of payments and IIP statistics.
- Describe the high-level themes that are being addressed during the current update of BPM6.
- Identify potential data sources and compilation techniques to be used to improve the coverage in ESS of activities emerging from globalization.
- Describe the analytical uses of balance of payments and IIP statistics.
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