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  "title": "Government Finance Statistics (GFSx)",
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  "summary": "Government Finance Statistics Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2025-02-10",
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    {
      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Title: Government Finance Statistics\n- Session No.: OL 23.176\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Organized by: Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, public financial management, statistics, or equivalent experience.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser and basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and on practical aspects of data compilation.\n- Coverage includes:\n  - Basic concepts and definitions, accounting principles, and detailed classifications in the context of the GFSM 2014.\n  - Harmonization with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008).\n  - The GFS framework, its coverage and accounting rules (including accrual accounting).\n  - Classifications, balance sheets and debt.\n  - Sources and methods used for compiling GFS.\n  - Dissemination of GFS and its uses in fiscal policymaking and analyses."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the GFS integrated framework and understand its advantages and the importance of comprehensive, consistent, and internationally comparable fiscal data for fiscal policy design, monitoring, and evaluation.\n  - Apply the main macroeconomic principles to identify public sector institutional units and distinguish between general government units and public corporations.\n  - Apply the basic macroeconomic concepts, principles, and accounting rules to identify, classify, and record transactions, other economic flows, and stock positions.\n  - Explain how specific government operations and other flows outside the government control impact the fiscal deficit/surplus, debt, and net worth.\n  - Describe the relationships between the main fiscal aggregates, and between the fiscal aggregates and other macroeconomic indicators."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related IMF training offerings (selection)",
      "content": "- Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS) — English (French, Portuguese) | January 18-29, 2027 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius\n- Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A) — English (Arabic) | December 13-17, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait\n- Fiscal Sustainability (FS) — English (Arabic) | November 9-20, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\n- Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC) — English (French, Portuguese) | November 9-13, 2026 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius"
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    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Organized by: Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and on practical aspects of data compilation.",
    "Coverage includes:",
    "Upon completion, participants should be able to:",
    "Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS) — English (French, Portuguese) | January 18-29, 2027 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A) — English (Arabic) | December 13-17, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait",
    "Fiscal Sustainability (FS) — English (Arabic) | November 9-20, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    "Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC) — English (French, Portuguese) | November 9-13, 2026 | In-person Training | Ebene, Mauritius"
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