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Data published in IMF country staff reports and International Financial Statistics (IFS) may differ for identical …
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The growing incidences of financial crises and their damage to the economy has led policy makers to sharpen the focus on financial stability analysis (FSA), crisis prevention and management over the past 10-15 years. The statistical world has reacted with a number of initiatives, but does more...
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""Gulf States System of Statistics."" Valuable lessons can be learned from regional statistical organization in Africa and …
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This paper examines the linkages between key macroeconomic statistics: external debt, balance of payments, government … finance, and monetary statistics, which enable analysts and policy makers to monitor economic developments. The paper reviews … compilers of related statistics, that may help compilers to achieve greater consistency between statistics concerned and thereby …
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The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries … has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however …. The IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (GFSY) withdata over an almost 40 year period for almost 140 countries is …
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Few papers have attempted to assess the role of 'capacity,' especially in the area of macroeconomic statistics …
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This paper assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the French and British public expenditure management systems as used in Africa. The main differences are in budget execution and government accounting. In both francophone and anglophone Africa, there are common weaknesses in the...
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For the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) as for many other transition economies, an important step in introducing a more market-oriented system was the restructuring of their budget systems. This paper reviews and evaluates the process of budget system...
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This paper stresses the role of budget system reform in economies in transition as an essential basis for the implementation of effective fiscal policies. However, introducing such structural reforms in often unstable economic environments has not proved easy. Using Russia as a case study, the...
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