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Implementation Plan in Response to The Board - Endorsed Recommendations from The IEO Evaluation Report on Growth and Adjustment in IMF - Supported Programs
International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
This management implementation plan (MIP) proposes actions in response to the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO)’s report on growth and adjustment in IMF-supported programs. The full implementation of the MIP package will help ensure that, at a time when many countries face strong headwinds, IMF-supported programs not only deliver necessary adjustment to address balance of payments needs but also pay greater attention to their growth effects. While the policy-related deliverables are already incorporated into current departmental work plans and budgets, the operational implementation of these recommendations may require mobilizing additional resources.
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IEO recommendation; IEO evaluation; financing envelope; IEO report; implementation plan; Structural reforms; Training and development in revenue administration; Fiscal multipliers; Fiscal consolidation; Contingency planning; Sub-Saharan Africa; Global
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International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
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Government finance statistics
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Republic of Madagascar: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
At the request of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance (Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances (MEF)) and in consultation with the African Department (AFR) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the IMF Statistics Department (STA) carried out a remote mission on government finance statistics (GFS) from November 29–December 10, 2021. The purpose of the mission was to continue to support the Malagasy authorities in their work to adopt international standards of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) for their GFS. The mission would like to thank the Research Directorate (Direction des Études (DE)) of the Directorate General of the Treasury (Direction Générale du Trésor (DGT)) for its close collaboration and more specifically for the timely communication of the required documents, which was essential to the success of the mission given the remote working conditions.
Keywords:
government finance statistics manual; authorities of the Republic of Madagascar; government finance statistics yearbook; staff team of the International Monetary Fund; government accounting directorate; Government finance statistics; Financial statements; Depreciation; Chart of accounts
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Building Statistical Capacity in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Yasmin Alem and Jacinta Bernadette Shirakawa
Based on internal data, this paper finds that the capacity development program of the IMF’s Statistics Department has prioritized technical assistance and training to fragile and conflict-affected states. These interventions have yielded only slightly weaker results in fragile states than in other states. However, capacity development is constantly needed to make up for the dissipation of progress resulting from insufficient resources that fragile and conflict-affected states allocate to the statistical function, inadequate inter-agency coordination, and the pervasive impact of shocks exogenous to the statistical system. Greater coordination with other capacity development providers and within the IMF can help partially overcome low absorptive capacity in fragile states. Statistical capacity development is more effective when it is tailored to countries’ level of fragility.
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Capacity Development; Statistics; Data; Fragile States; Sta CD mission; government finance statistics manual; Sta CD delivery; Sta CD spending; World Bank methodology assessment; Income; Government finance statistics; External sector statistics; Information and data management; Middle East and Central Asia; Pacific Islands; Middle East; West Africa; Africa; Central Africa; Global
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Fund Concessional Financial Support For Low-Income Countries—Responding To The Pandemic
International Monetary Fund
This paper proposes a package of policy reforms and a funding strategy to ensure that the Fund has the capacity to respond flexibly to LICs’ needs during the pandemic and recovery. The key policy reforms proposed include: • raising the normal annual/cumulative limits on access to PRGT resources to 145/435 percent of quota, the same thresholds for normal access in the GRA; • eliminating the hard limits on exceptional access (EA) to PRGT resources for the poorest LICs, enabling them to obtain all financing on concessional terms if the EA criteria are met; • changes to the framework for blending concessional and non-concessional resources to make it more robust and less complex; • stronger safeguards to address concerns regarding debt sustainability and capacity to repay the Fund; and • retaining zero interest rates on PRGT loans, consistent with the established rules for setting these interest rates.
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PRGT lending; PRGT subsidization; fund financing commitment; PRGT account; PRGT resource; WB financing; COVID-19; Income; Loans; Credit; Concessional external borrowing; Global
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International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
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Government finance statistics
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Republic of Madagascar: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
At the request of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and in consultation with the Africa Department (AFR) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a remote Government Finance Statistics (GFS) mission from the Statistics Department (STA) took place in Madagascar from October 26 to November 13, 2020. The objective of this mission was to continue supporting the authorities in their project to adopt international GFS standards based on the methodology of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the Public Sector Debt Statistics Guide (PSDSG) and to improve GFS in general.
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Public Sector Debt statistic; staff team of the International Monetary Fund; C. mission work; report constitute; GFS questionnaire; Government finance statistics; Financial statements; Data processing; Stocks; Africa
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Republic of Madagascar: Staff Report for the 2019 Article IV Consultation and Sixth Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement—Debt Sustainability Analysis
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.

2019 Article IV Consultation and Sixth Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Republic of Madagascar

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ISCR; CR; Malagasy authorities; Executive Board discussion; ECF arrangement; investment implementation capacity; reform agenda; scaling-up priority investment; Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Credit; Sub-Saharan Africa; Global; financial asset; AFS PFM regulation; SDR equivalent; compilation of producer price index; quality standard; External sector statistics
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Republic of Madagascar: Technical Assistance Report—Government Finance Statistics Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
This Technical Assistance paper on the Republic of Madagascar explains the need for the Malagasy authorities to adopt the Government Finance Statistics Manual (GFSM) 2014 concepts, definitions, and methodology as part of the macroeconomic statistics improvement Project. The report recommends that it is important to improve macroeconomic analysis and monitoring of the overall impact of government finances on the country’s economy, something that other public finance ‘figures’ of a budgetary and accounting nature are not intended to do. The report shows that steady progress continues with the preparation of a bridge table between the chart of accounts and the GFSM 2014 classifications. Notable improvements have been made in the presentation of Other Net Treasury Operations, the detailed components of which were identified and can now be presented on a gross basis. Based on the progress made, the prospect of compiling consolidated GFS covering all subsectors of the Malagasy general government in a not-too-distant future is encouraging.
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ISCR; CR; accounting; CNaPS; CTD accounting balance; balance; government finance information; CTD accounting source; GFS compilation; compilation file; GFS coverage; Government finance statistics; Financial statements
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Republic of Madagascar: Technical Assistance Report—Report on Technical Assistance Mission in External Sector Statistics (July 2-13, 2018)
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
This Technical Assistance report highlights that the mission visited Madagascar to aid in the external sector statistics (ESS), including the balance of payments and international investment position (IIP). The mission focused on assisting improving the coverage of IIP by better using the administrative sources or by identifying new data sources for private sector. A more sustained effort must be applied to the collection system to ensure the timelier submission of data of adequate quality. The compilation of the quarterly ESS, which is one of the main ESS objectives, requires both an increase in the number of compilers and a change of approach in the collection of source data. The quarterly data are compiled on the basis of the ESRI and should be supplemented by the collection of quarterly data using a simple survey of major public and private enterprises. The mission recommended a detailed one-year action plan with a set of priority recommendations carrying particular weight to make headway in improving the ESS.
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ISCR; CR; data; balance of payments; BFM; transaction; balance of payments transaction; ESS data sets; goods data; reserve assets transaction; accounts receivable; import transaction; investment project; BFM survey form; account transactions; External sector statistics; Data collection; Balance of payments statistics; International investment position; Foreign direct investment