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Toward a Framework for Assessing Data Quality
Carson, Carol S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
practices including those of the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599693
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The Relationship Between Macroeconomic Statistics Guidelines and Accounting Standards
Laliberté, Lucie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper aims to promote harmonization between macroeconomic statistics guidelines and accounting standards. It first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826385
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Mainstreaming Statistics in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Approach to Provide for More Effective Technical Assistance; Some Experience At the IMF
Kibuka, Robin D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The paper reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach and efforts to build institutional statistical capacity to permit evidence-based monitoring of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Integrating the PRS approach and statistical development strategies could provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248218
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Assessing Accuracy and Reliability; A Note Basedon Approaches Used in National Accounts and Balance of Payments Statistics
Carson, Carol S.; Laliberté, Lucie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Both national accounts and balance of payments are based on multiple, complex source data and typically undergo several routine revisions as more and better source data are incorporated into the final estimates. As a result, neither dataset can be subjected directly to the usual statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599554
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Comprehensive Measures of GDP and the Unrecorded Economy
Shrestha, Manik L.; Bloem, Adriaan M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
Comprehensive coverage of national accounts estimates is important; however, it is often thwarted by gaps in the recording of economic activity – the so-called “unrecorded economy”. This paper sets out pragmatic statistical approaches for incorporating the unrecorded economy in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604994
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Providing official Statistics for the Common Market and Monetary Union in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries; A Case for "Gulfstat"
Al-Mansouri, Abdulrahman K. L.; Dziobek, Claudia Helene - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
region as a whole will be essential. What is the most efficient way to produce these data? The authors survey the statistical … "Gulf States System of Statistics." Valuable lessons can be learned from regional statistical organization in Africa and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768896
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Benford’s Law and Macroeconomic Data Quality
Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus; Pastor, Gonzalo C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
analysis shows that rejection of Benford's law may be unrelated to the quality of statistics, and instead may result from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769268
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Global Poverty Estimates; A Sensitivity Analysis
Minoiu, Camelia; Dhongde, Shatakshee - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
estimates of global poverty vary significantly when they are based alternately on data from household surveys versus national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369432
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A Framework to Assess the Effectiveness of IMF Technical Assistance in National Accounts
Pastor, Gonzalo C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
"ultimate outcomes" (i.e., the production and dissemination of national accounts statistics along best international practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497607
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Effects of Volatile Asset Priceson Balance of Payments and International Investment Position
Committeri, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
relationship between international investment position (IIP) and balance of payments (BOP) statistics. Exact and approximated … statistics with IIP and external debt stock statistics, and discuss (a) how such accuracy is affected by volatile asset prices … make use of more detailed financial information in compiling BOP and IIP statistics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768936