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  "title": "External Debt Statistics",
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  "summary": "External Debt Statistics Training Program External Debt Statistics (EDSx) Deadline passed Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-08",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Title: External Debt Statistics (EDSx)\n- Session No.: OL 25.151\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Intended audience:\n  - 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  - Open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public.\n- Recommended qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department (IMF).\n- Purpose:\n  - 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- Core coverage:\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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "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 context (IMF training offerings - illustrative list in source)",
      "content": "- Examples of other IMF training offerings (titles, languages, dates, formats, locations provided in source):\n  - 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\n  - Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC) — English (Arabic) | December 7-18, 2026 | In-person Training | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"
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    "Review the presentation of EDS.",
    "Define the debt reorganization and review the four types of debt reorganization.",
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