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  "title": "Government Finance Statistics - Advanced",
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  "summary": "Government Finance Statistics - Advanced Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues, such as those described below.",
  "publishDate": "2025-12-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Course overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: HQ 26.07\n- Location: Washington, D.C., United States\n- Date: October 26, 2026 - November 6, 2026 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — substantive coverage",
      "content": "- Focus:\n  - Conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014.\n- Prerequisite familiarity:\n  - Participants are expected to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.\n- Emphasis on integrated GFS framework and complex cross-cutting issues, including:\n  - Social protection\n  - Government employee pension liabilities\n  - Standardized guarantee schemes\n  - Contracts\n  - Leases\n  - Licenses\n  - Public-private partnerships\n  - Public sector balance sheets\n- Coverage and coordination topics:\n  - Coverage of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases\n  - Internal and intersectoral data consistency\n  - Coordination between data-producing agencies\n  - Data presentation and communication with users\n- Format:\n  - Lectures and discussions"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — competencies on completion",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the new concepts introduced in the GFSM 2014.\n  - Apply the general principles in GFSM 2014 to complex cross-cutting GFS issues in the integrated framework, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets."
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    "Primary Language: French",
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