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  "title": "Myanmar: Technical Assistance Report-External Sector Statistics Mission",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Mission type: Technical Assistance (TA) on external sector statistics (ESS) for the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA).\n- Date on page: February 18, 2020.\n- Core activity: Intensive hands-on training through peripatetic TA missions aimed at building capacity for DICA compilers and improving Foreign Direct Investment Surveys (FDIS)."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Capacity building:\n  - Intensive hands-on training provided to the DICA through peripatetic TA missions effectively contributed to building up capacity for DICA compilers.\n  - Capacity improvements have gradually materialized and translated into successful foreign direct investment surveys (FDIS) conducted last year.\n- Data coverage improvements:\n  - Inclusion of FDI in oil and gas sector significantly improved data coverage; oil and gas is one of the largest FDI recipients for Myanmar.\n  - Overall data coverage for Myanmar’s FDI statistics has been significantly improved through recent efforts.\n- Survey form updates:\n  - The mission assisted DICA officials in updating the annual FDIS survey forms, making alterations to the previous year’s survey forms to capture additional information as requested by DICA management."
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      "heading": "Priority recommendations and actions advised",
      "content": "- Expand FDIS coverage:\n  - Extend the coverage of FDIS to incorporate new companies.\n  - Extend the coverage of FDIS to incorporate FDI in power generation sector.\n- Continue capacity-building support:\n  - Maintain peripatetic TA missions and hands-on training to further strengthen DICA compilers’ skills and sustain improvements in FDIS implementation.\n- Improve survey instruments:\n  - Continue periodic updates to annual FDIS survey forms to capture additional information as requested by DICA management and to reflect evolving compilation needs."
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      "content": "- Subject: Balance of payments, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Foreign direct investment, Oil sector\n- Keywords: awareness workshop, Commercial banks, company, compiled FDI statistics data, CR, DICA FDI compiler, DICA official, FDI company, flow data, Foreign direct investment, ISCR, Launch FDIS-2018, Oil sector, sampling frame\n- Publication details:\n  - Pages: 20\n  - Volume: 2020\n  - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513530345.002\n  - Issue: 047\n  - Series: Country Report No. 2020/047\n  - Stock No: 1MMREA2020002\n  - ISBN: 9781513530345\n  - ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Myanmar: Technical Assistance Report-External Sector Statistics Mission (February 18, 2020).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1mmrea2020002\n  - 1mmrea2020002 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1mmrea2020002 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513530345.002",
    "Mission type: Technical Assistance (TA) on external sector statistics (ESS) for the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA).",
    "Date on page: February 18, 2020.",
    "Core activity: Intensive hands-on training through peripatetic TA missions aimed at building capacity for DICA compilers and improving Foreign Direct Investment Surveys (FDIS).",
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    "Improve survey instruments:",
    "Subject: Balance of payments, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Foreign direct investment, Oil sector",
    "Keywords: awareness workshop, Commercial banks, company, compiled FDI statistics data, CR, DICA FDI compiler, DICA official, FDI company, flow data, Foreign direct investment, ISCR, Launch FDIS-2018, Oil sector, sampling frame",
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