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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": "2026-02-17",
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      "heading": "Course logistics and qualifications",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.138\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Spanish\n- Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics and statistics or equivalent experience is helpful.\n- Target Audience:\n  - This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling external accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or integrated international investment position (IIP) statistics.\n  - It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the advanced EDS course.\n  - It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP."
    },
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The course 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.\n  - Economic territory, units, institutional sectors, residency.\n  - Principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) relevant for compilation of the EDS.\n  - Basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the framework for external sector statistics.\n  - Apply methods for measurement of external debt from the debtor's perspective and their accounting principles.\n  - Review the presentation of EDS.\n  - Define the debt reorganization and review the four types of debt reorganization.\n  - Understand liabilities and contingent liabilities in macroeconomic statistics.\n  - Comprehend the objective of debt sustainability analysis framework as well as factors that affect an economy's debt sustainability."
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    {
      "heading": "Institutional note",
      "content": "- The IMF offers online training to government officials and the public."
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