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  "title": "Government Finance Statistics (GFSx) — Training Program",
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  "summary": "Government Finance Statistics Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2025-06-03",
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      "heading": "Overview and Administrative Details",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 25.168\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2025 - April 15, 2026 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Spanish\n- Target Audience:\n  - Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and Technical Requirements",
      "content": "- Expected academic/professional background:\n  - Degree in economics, public financial management, statistics, or equivalent experience.\n- Technical requirements:\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection.\n  - Google Chrome web browser.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description — Scope and Framework",
      "content": "- Presented by the Statistics Department.\n- Focus areas:\n  - Conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014).\n  - Practical aspects of data compilation.\n- Framework relationships:\n  - GFSM 2014 is harmonized with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008).\n- Topics covered:\n  - Basic concepts and definitions.\n  - Accounting principles, including accrual accounting.\n  - Detailed classifications.\n  - Balance sheets and debt.\n  - Sources and methods used for compiling GFS.\n  - Dissemination of GFS and its uses in fiscal policymaking and analyses."
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      "heading": "Course Objectives — Learning Outcomes",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the GFS integrated framework, 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."
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