The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

In this paper a number of problems are discussed concerning the introduction in transition countries of national accounts according to the 1993 System of National Accounts. These concern the classification of government owned enterprises and their transactions, valuation problems, undercoverage...