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  "title": "Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate",
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  "summary": "Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate Training Program Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate (BPIIPS-M) Deadline passed Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-21",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics).\n  - Participants should be familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).\n- Qualifications:\n  - Expected to have a degree in economics or statistics and at least two years of relevant compilation experience, or\n  - Should have completed the Compilation of Balance of Payments Statistics course."
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    {
      "heading": "Course description and structure",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Level: Intermediate — presupposes familiarity with basic balance of payments and IIP concepts; does not cover basic concepts.\n- Format:\n  - Series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component.\n  - Designed to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences.\n- Emphases:\n  - Deep understanding of concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics.\n  - Application of methodology to address complex methodological issues.\n  - Topics addressed during the current update of BPM6 will be elaborated.\n  - Specific focus on estimating informal cross-border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities.\n  - Examination of themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy and their impact on compilation work.\n- Integration:\n  - Exercises geared to integrate data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice.\n  - Exercises demonstrate analytical uses of ESS."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Apply knowledge gained in dealing with complex methodological and compilation issues related to balance of payments and IIP statistics.\n  - Describe the high-level themes that are being addressed during the current update of BPM6.\n  - Identify potential data sources and compilation techniques to be used to improve the coverage in ESS of activities emerging from globalization.\n  - Describe the analytical uses of balance of payments and IIP statistics."
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