of national accounts benchmarks, availability annual and quarterly GDP estimates, vintage of the System of National … Accounts (SNA), index formula used for calculating annual constant price (volume) estimates, availability of GDP by different … approaches, timeliness of disseminating and annual and quarterly GDP estimates, availability institutional sector accounts, and …

presents an overview of the data and statistical requirements to develop those indicators taking into account resource …

Based on internal data, this paper finds that the capacity development program of the IMF's Statistics Department has …

We develop a new Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR) using data from the IMF's Annual Report on Exchange …

assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on the data in Schindler (2009) and other datasets based on … dataset and characterizes the data with respect to the prevalence and correlation of controls across asset categories and …

flexibility to incorporate mixed-frequency data variables. We present nowcast results for 2019Q4 and 2020Q1 GDP for Kenya, Nigeria …, particularly for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where data availability and lack of generalizable nowcasting methodologies limit efforts … that can be used to nowcast GDP and track changes in economic activity for countries in SSA. We make two main contributions …

This paper seeks to illuminate the uncertainty in official GDP per capita measures using auxiliary data. Using … per capita and the nonparametric distribution of errors in official GDP per capita data. We then construct more precise … and robust measures of GDP per capita using nighttime lights, official national accounts data, statistical capacity, and …