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  "title": "External Debt Statistics (EDSx)",
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  "summary": "External Debt Statistics Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-24",
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      "heading": "Course logistics and qualifications",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.150\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Deadline: Deadline passed\n- Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful. Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- The course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.\n- It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the face-to-face EDS course.\n- It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public."
    },
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).\n- Coverage includes:\n  - Basic concepts, definitions, and classifications relevant to EDS.\n  - Principal accounting rules, including valuation and time of recording, relevant for compilation of the EDS.\n  - Briefing on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Explain the international accounts framework of external sector statistics.\n- Apply the methods for the measurement of external debt from the viewpoint of the debtor and their accounting principles.\n- Review the presentation of EDS.\n- Define the debt reorganization and review the four types of debt reorganization.\n- Comprehend the objective of debt sustainability analysis framework as well as factors that affect economy’s debt sustainability."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related training offerings (listed by the provider)",
      "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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    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Deadline: Deadline passed",
    "Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful. Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.",
    "The course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.",
    "It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the face-to-face EDS course.",
    "It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public.",
    "The course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide).",
    "Coverage includes:",
    "Explain the international accounts framework of external sector statistics.",
    "Apply the methods for the measurement of external debt from the viewpoint of the debtor and their accounting principles.",
    "Review the presentation of EDS.",
    "Define the debt reorganization and review the four types of debt reorganization.",
    "Comprehend the objective of debt sustainability analysis framework as well as factors that affect economy’s debt sustainability.",
    "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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