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  "title": "Virtual : Monetary and Financial Statistics - Advanced (MFS-A)",
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  "summary": "Virtual : Monetary and Financial Statistics - Advanced Training Program Target Audience Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2023-03-11",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience: Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics, or equivalent experience.\n  - Previous completion of the Monetary and Financial Statistics - Introductory (MFS-I) course in person or virtual is recommended."
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    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and contents",
      "content": "- Basis: Course material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).\n- Orientation:\n  - Introduces the fundamentals of compiling monetary statistics, with special attention to other financial corporations (OFCs).\n  - Gives an overview of financial statistics and national accounts.\n  - Assumes participants already understand the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course).\n- Core topics:\n  - Characteristics of various OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.).\n  - Typical balance sheet structure of OFCs and their role in the financial sector.\n  - Some aspects of financial statistics, dealing with financial flows and stocks of all sectors of the domestic economy and their interactions with the rest of the world.\n  - The balance sheet approach to vulnerability analysis.\n  - Relationships between monetary, balance of payments, government finance, and national accounts statistics.\n- Methods and practical work:\n  - Lectures and case studies to familiarize participants with practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics for OFCs and basic principles underlying the compilation of national accounts.\n  - At the end of the course, participants are expected to make a short presentation on monetary statistics compilation issues in their own countries."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Describe the role of OFCs in the financial sector and the related implications of data collection for monetary statistics purposes.\n  - Distinguish between different types of OFCs.\n  - Compile OFC monetary statistics according to IMF standardized report form 4 SR for OFCs.\n  - Apply the main principles of financial statistics and national accounts."
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    "Target audience: Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.",
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    "Basis: Course material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG).",
    "Orientation:",
    "Core topics:",
    "Methods and practical work:",
    "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:"
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