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  "title": "Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate",
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  "summary": "Back to top Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics - Intermediate (BPIIPS-M) Deadline passed Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-06-17",
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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 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 and scope",
      "content": "- Course level: Intermediate (does not cover basic balance of payments and IIP concepts; presupposes familiarity with basic concepts).\n- Presented by: Statistics Department.\n- Aims:\n  - Provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application in addressing complex methodological issues.\n  - Elaborate on topics being addressed during the current update of BPM6.\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 and special topics:\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  - Integration of data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice.\n  - Demonstration of the analytical uses of ESS."
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      "heading": "Course objectives and 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 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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