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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": "2025-12-10",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and content focus",
      "content": "- Aim: Provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for BOP and IIP statistics.\n- Methodological framework: Application in accordance with the recently updated Integrated Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Seventh Edition (BPM7).\n- Level: Intermediate; presupposes participants' familiarity with the basic concepts.\n- Instructional 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- The course acknowledges and addresses challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, including:\n  - Identification of goods traded within global manufacturing arrangements.\n  - Digital trade.\n- Examination of themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy, with opportunities to discuss impacts on compilation work.\n- Specific exercises are geared to:\n  - Integrate data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice.\n  - Demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- 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 be used to improve the coverage in ESS of activities emerging from globalization.\n- Describe the analytical uses of BOP and IIP statistics."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related IMF training note",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find our current offerings."
    }
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    "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.",
    "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.",
    "Aim: Provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for BOP and IIP statistics.",
    "Methodological framework: Application in accordance with the recently updated Integrated Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Seventh Edition (BPM7).",
    "Level: Intermediate; presupposes participants' familiarity with the basic concepts.",
    "Instructional format:",
    "The course acknowledges and addresses challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, including:",
    "Examination of themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy, with opportunities to discuss impacts on compilation work.",
    "Specific exercises are geared to:",
    "Apply knowledge gained in dealing with complex methodological and compilation issues related to BOP and IIP statistics.",
    "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 BOP and IIP statistics.",
    "IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find our current offerings."
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