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  "title": "External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users",
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  "summary": "The External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (EDS Guide) contains updated global standards for the compilation, reporting, and analytical use of external debt statistics.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (EDS Guide) contains updated global standards for the compilation, reporting, and analytical use of external debt statistics.\n- The new edition reflects significant developments in international finance since the issuance of the 2003 EDS Guide.\n- The guide provides guidance on:\n  - concepts, definitions, and classifications of external debt data;\n  - sources and techniques for compiling external debt data;\n  - analytical uses of external debt data."
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      "heading": "Preparation and Contributors",
      "content": "- The 2013 EDS Guide was prepared under the responsibility of the nine organizations in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics.\n- Preparation occurred in close consultation with national compilers of:\n  - external debt statistics;\n  - balance of payments statistics;\n  - international investment position statistics."
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      "heading": "Contents and Purpose",
      "content": "- The guide:\n  - updates global standards for external debt statistics;\n  - offers definitions and classifications relevant to external debt;\n  - details compilation sources and techniques;\n  - explains analytical applications of the data."
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    {
      "heading": "Subject Coverage and Keywords",
      "content": "- Subject areas: Balance of payments, Currencies, External debt, External position, Financial institutions, Foreign direct investment, Money, Securities\n- Keywords include: Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Caribbean, Currencies, debt, debt liability, debt position, debt securities, Foreign direct investment, Global, interest cost, M&G, Securities, security transaction, trade credit, Western Hemisphere\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (page overview).\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/manuals-guides/issues/2016/12/31/external-debt-statistics-guide-for-compilers-and-users-40758"
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