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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.
Keywords:
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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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"

Keywords:
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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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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Trinidad and Tobago: Staff Report for the 2018 Article IV Consultation—Informational Annex
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.

2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release and Staff Report

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ISCR; CR; authority; GDP; FX shortage; FX; CBTT; CBTT estimate; intervention rate; financial asset; RPI basket; compilation methodology; External sector statistics; Civil society organizations; Balance of payments statistics
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Lag for Public Access to Board Minutes
International Monetary Fund

Lag for Public Access to the Minutes of Executive Board Meetings

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PP; board meeting minutes; board; minute; lag; public access; Board transcript; Board document; Board decision-making; Board deliberation; Civil society organizations
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Mali: Poverty Reduction and Strategy Paper—2009 Progress Report
International Monetary Fund

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are prepared by the member country in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners. Despite strong economic performance in recent years compared with Sub-Saharan African and WAEMU countries, Mali’s average annual growth rate of 4.6 percent is below the target of 7 percent provided in the PRSP. At end-2009, the situation in the banking and financial system was characterized by an increase in the money supply, an increase in net foreign assets, an increase in credit to the economy, and a decline in credit to the government.

Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; collection center; center; national budget; measles vaccination rate; meat production; ME compilation; mutual health association; Data collection; Civil society organizations
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Mauritius: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-Data Module, Response by the Authorities, and Detailed Assessment Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)
International Monetary Fund
This report on the observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module provides an assessment of Mauritius’s macroeconomic statistics against the Special Data Dissemination Standard complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework July 2003. The assessment reveals that the quality of the macroeconomic statistics in Mauritius has improved significantly since the previous assessment conducted in 2001. Quarterly national accounts were successfully put in place. Work is well advanced to implement the new international methodology for government finance statistics.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; sc; time series; CPI; balance of payments statistics; IMF advisor; IMF Regional Statistics Advisor; IIP data; Balance of payments statistics; Civil society organizations; Monetary statistics; Consumer price indexes; Global; Africa