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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": "2025-10-28",
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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 (BOP) and/or International Investment Position (IIP) statistics - who possess knowledge and experience in applying internationally accepted standards for these macroeconomic statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics and at least two years of relevant compilation experience or should have completed the Online Balance of Payment and International Investment Position (BOP-IIPx) course."
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      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Aim:\n  - Provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments (BOP) and international investment position (IIP) statistics.\n- Standards and focus:\n  - Focuses on application in addressing complex methodological issues in accordance with the recently updated seventh edition of the Integrated Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Seventh Edition (BPM7).\n  - Intermediate level presupposes participants' familiarity with the basic concepts.\n- Format and pedagogy:\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- Thematic coverage:\n  - Challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, such as the identification of goods traded within global manufacturing arrangements and digital trade.\n  - Examination of themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy and discussion of their impact on compilation work.\n  - Specific exercises geared to integrate data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses in BOP and IIP statistics."
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      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "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 BOP and IIP statistics;\n  - Identify potential data sources and compilation techniques to improve the coverage of activities emerging from globalization;\n  - Describe the analytical uses of BOP and IIP statistics."
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