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  "title": "Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate (BPIIPS-M)",
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  "summary": "Back to top Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate (BPIIPS-M) Invitation Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-15",
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      "heading": "Invitation and Logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: CT 24.15\n- Location: Dalian, China\n- Date: October 21, 2024 - November 1, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Interpretation Language: Chinese"
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      "heading": "Qualifications and Target Audience",
      "content": "- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics and at least two years of relevant compilation experience, or\n  - Participants should have completed the Compilation of Balance of Payments Statistics (BPSCG) course.\n- Target Audience:\n  - Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics), and who are familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6)."
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    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department and targeted at compilers with experience in compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP.\n- Aims:\n  - Provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics.\n  - Apply these tools to address complex methodological issues.\n- Scope and level:\n  - The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts.\n  - The intermediate level presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts.\n- Format:\n  - Series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences.\n- Emphases:\n  - Estimating informal cross border activities.\n  - Treatment of special purpose entities.\n  - Themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy and their impact on compilation work.\n  - Integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice.\n  - Demonstrating the analytical uses of ESS."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, 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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