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  "title": "International Trade in Goods and Services",
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  "summary": "International Trade in Goods and Services Training Program Target Audience Officials whose main responsibility is compiling balance of payments, international merchandise trade statistics, and/or international trade in services statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2023-08-08",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials whose main responsibility is compiling balance of payments, international merchandise trade statistics, and/or international trade in services statistics.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should have a degree in economics or statistics or equivalent experience.\n  - Participants should be familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).\n- Pre-requisites:\n  - Participants should be familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, sixth edition (BPM6)."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the IMF's Statistics Department.\n- Aims to provide a thorough understanding of concepts and practical advice on data sources and compilation techniques for international trade in goods and services statistics.\n- Largely based on:\n  - BPM6 Compilation Guide (companion document of BPM6).\n  - Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 Compilers Guide (MSITS 2010 CG).\n- Format:\n  - Series of lectures, workshops and plenary discussions on country practices.\n- Emphases:\n  - Concepts, sources, and compilation methods associated with international trade in goods and services statistics.\n  - Specific aspects related to the treatment and recording in the balance of payments for services categories that present compilation challenges, including:\n    - manufacturing and merchanting\n    - insurance\n    - financial services\n    - construction\n    - digitalization\n- Participant engagement:\n  - Opportunity to discuss problems encountered in compilation work.\n  - Insights into the analytical uses of international trade in goods and services statistics."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Apply knowledge gained in dealing with complex methodological and compilation issues related to balance of payments and International Investment Position statistics, mainly goods and services account.\n- Identify potential data sources and compilation techniques to be used to improve the coverage in goods and services account of activities emerging from globalization and digitalization.\n- Describe the analytical uses of goods and services statistics."
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