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  "title": "Compilation Basics for Macroeconomic Statistics (CBMSx)",
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  "summary": "Compilation Basics for Macroeconomic Statistics Training Program Target Audience Officials who compile macroeconomic and financial statistics in national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, economy, or planning, or in central banks.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-22",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Officials who compile macroeconomic and financial statistics in national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, economy, or planning, or in central banks.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics and statistics is helpful.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser and basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Reviews the basic skills, concepts, and principles required to compile and disseminate macroeconomic and financial statistics.\n- Topics covered include:\n  - residence\n  - institutional units\n  - institutional sectors\n  - accounting rules\n  - financial instruments\n  - stocks and flows\n  - the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives\n  - basic macroeconomic linkages among these statistics"
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Differentiate institutional units and sectors.\n- Apply the concept of residence.\n- Record stocks and flows in an integrated manner.\n- Apply appropriate accounting rules.\n- Classify financial instruments.\n- Summarize the requirements and recommendations of the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives.\n- Evaluate macroeconomic inter-linkages."
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    "Differentiate institutional units and sectors.",
    "Apply the concept of residence.",
    "Record stocks and flows in an integrated manner.",
    "Apply appropriate accounting rules.",
    "Classify financial instruments.",
    "Summarize the requirements and recommendations of the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives.",
    "Evaluate macroeconomic inter-linkages."
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