The purpose of this document is to provide a comparative analysis of Latin-American government finance statistics including public expenditures, income, overall balances, and debt stocks. The paper explores some of the problems that arise in country comparisons and in regional harmonization of...

This presentation covers fiscal operations; examples of creative indicators such as structural balance and the new accounting framework in Chile, the public debt in Brazil and traditional balance and public private partnerships in Mexico. Also covered are indicators of "quality" of public...