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  "title": "Government Finance Statistics - Advanced",
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  "summary": "Government Finance Statistics - Advanced Training Program Government Finance Statistics - Advanced (GFS-A) Invitation Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-09-26",
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    {
      "heading": "Target Audience and Qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Expected educational background: degree in economics, public financial management or statistics or the equivalent.\n  - Strong recommendation: completion of the online Government Finance Statistics (GFSx) or the Government Finance Statistics fundamental (GFS-F) courses."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Presented by: Statistics Department.\n- Framework: conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014.\n- Prerequisite knowledge: participants are required to be familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system.\n- Emphases and topics:\n  - Integrated GFS framework and complex cross-cutting issues, including:\n    - social protection\n    - government employee pension liabilities\n    - standardized guarantee schemes\n    - contracts, leases, licenses\n    - public-private partnerships\n    - public sector balance sheets\n  - Coverage of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases.\n  - Internal and intersectoral data consistency.\n  - Coordination between data-producing agencies.\n  - Data presentation and communication with users.\n- Format: lectures and discussions."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the new concepts introduced in the GFSM 2014.\n  - Apply the general principles in GFSM 2014 to complex cross-cutting GFS issues in the integrated framework, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets."
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