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St. Lucia: Technical Assistance Report-External Sector Statistics
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
A remote technical assistance (TA) mission on external sector statistics (ESS) was conducted for the Central Statistical Office (CSO) of Saint Lucia during March 22–26, 2021. The mission was part of the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC) work program on External Sector Statistics (ESS).
Keywords:
IMF's Statistics Department; World Bank staff; balance of payments manual; balance of payments survey data; instrumentalities of the TA recipient; Civil society organizations; External sector statistics; Exports; Balance of payments statistics; Caribbean
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Zambia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Government Finance Statistics
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
In response to a request from the authorities and as part of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative (EDDI) 2 project, a Government Finance Statistics (GFS) mission visited Lusaka, Zambia, during November 19–30, 2018. This was the third mission to Zambia under the DFID EDDI2 project, following the March 2016 and November 2017 missions. The mission worked essentially with staff at the Zambia Central Statistical Office (CSO) Public Finance Unit (PFU), but also had meetings with staff from the Ministry of Finance’s Accountant General, Budget, Investment and Debt Management, and Economic Management departments.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; statement of operation; GFS statement; compilation file; GFS compilation; classification assistant; public finance; Government finance statistics; Business enterprises; Financial statements; Data collection; Civil society organizations
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Myanmar: Technical Assistance Report-External Sector Statistics Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
This Technical Assistance Report paper highlights that the work on verifying reasonable size of coverage adjustments for Myanmar’s imports was addressed during the mission, using bilateral trade data from Thailand and China. The mission illustrated how granular data can be used to help determine proper adjustments to improve the coverage of the International merchandise trade statistics, using Thailand’s data on exports to Myanmar cross-classified by border checkpoint and 2-digit HS code. The data indicated potential under-coverage of Myanmar imports for a few checkpoints sharing land border with Thailand. Although the actual travel expenditure per person per day for certain years is likely to be lower than the time series published by the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism given continuous depreciation of Kyat over the past five years, this factor should unlikely outweigh the effect of growing numbers of inbound tourists. Balance-of-payments compilation file used by the Central Bank of Myanmar Balance of Payments Section has now been modified to accommodate suggested coverage adjustments for imports, and the new estimation model for freight and insurance on imports proposed during March 2019 mission.
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ISCR; CR; CBM Balance of Payments Section; Myanmar; BPS compiler; mirror data; verification exercise; deputy governor; data request; Imports; External sector statistics; Civil society organizations; Credit
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Kingdom of Eswatini: Staff Report for the 2019 Article IV Consultation—Informational Annex
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.

2019 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Kingdom of Eswatini

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ISCR; CR; government; deficit; SACU revenue; banking sector; government arrears; clearance strategy; intervention regime; government assets; private sector growth; Government debt management; Fiscal consolidation; International reserves; Africa; Global; Southern Africa; liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident; financial asset; classification of balance of payments; reliability of the BOP datum; quarterly GDP estimate; Government finance statistics; Balance of payments statistics; Civil society organizations; Financial statistics
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IMF Policy Paper: A Strategy For IMF Engagement on Social Spending—Background Papers
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept., International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, &, and Review Department

Background papers to the "Strategy for IMF Engagement on Social Spending"

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PP; spending; staff report; staff; IMF staff calculation; policy advice; program engagement; definition of macro-criticality; spending outcome; spending conditionality; Fiscal space; Civil society organizations
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Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups and the Propagation of Credit Supply Shocks
Ms. Yu Shi, Robert M. Townsend, and Wu Zhu
Using business registry data from China, we show that internal capital markets in business groups can propagate corporate shareholders’ credit supply shocks to their subsidiaries. An average of 16.7% local bank credit growth where corporate shareholders are located would increase subsidiaries investment by 1% of their tangible fixed asset value, which accounts for 71% (7%) of the median (average) investment rate among these firms. We argue that equity exchanges is one channel through which corporate shareholders transmit bank credit supply shocks to the subsidiaries and provide empirical evidence to support the channel.
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WP; subsidiary firm; trade credit; bank financing condition; profit margin; Internal capital markets; business groups; bank lending; China; credit supply shocks; business group; Credit; Supply shocks; Bank credit; Stocks; Asset valuation
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Zambia: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
This Technical Assistance (TA) report focuses on four key work areas which may lead to improvement of Government Finance Statistics (GFS) for fiscal analysis, support policy making decisions in Zambia, and improve African Department surveillance. The mission found out that the Coordinating Committee, recommended in the previous TA mission, was not yet established. The mission reviewed progress on the legal and institutional arrangements supporting the compilation of GFS as a follow up from recommendations of the previous GFS TA mission and found that the legislation reforms were on track, especially regarding the Public Finance Act. The report also found that Central Statistical Office (CSO) is working on the revision of the Statistics Act to follow the new strategy for National Development of Statistics. For sustainability and consistency purposes, the mission recommended that the CSO staff produce a GFS manual for compilation and dissemination of GFS data.
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ISCR; CR; town council; excise duty; economics department; chart of account; local government; debt management; accounts payable; withholding tax; accounts receivable; full general government GFS; Government finance statistics; Civil society organizations; Non-wage benefits; Financial statements; Africa
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St. Lucia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Supply and Use Tables Mission
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
A technical assistance (TA) mission was undertaken by the Real Sector Statistics Advisor in the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC) to St. Lucia during September 17–28, 2018, to provide advice to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on compiling supply and use tables (SUT) for 2016. The 2006 base year for the GDP estimates is outdated and does not reflect the current structure of the economy. In addition, there is scope to improve the input data and methodology used in producing the GDP estimates and to implement the relevant System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) recommendations.
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ISCR; CR; information; center; government output data need; quality issue; I/O ratio; gross income; system data; GDP estimate; SUT product; CIT data; CSO staff; output estimate; government data; NIC data; Data collection; Civil society organizations; Value-added tax; Financial statistics; Caribbean
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