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The high priority recommendations from the data report on the observance of standards and codes mission covered both general and sector-specific issues relating to the national accounts, consumer and producer price indices, government finance statistics, monetary statistics, and balance-of-payments statistics. Progress has been made in implementing the recommendation on data sharing and coordination among agencies. A high-level statistics producers committee has been established. Progress on quarterly national accounts data has been slow because of poor response rates to the surveys.

Botswana --- Economic conditions. --- Macroeconomics --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Producer price indexes --- National accounts --- Consumer price indexes --- Prices --- Price indexes --- National income

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This paper discusses results of a technical assistance report prepared to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) improve the quality of the national accounts statistics. SB is currently rebasing the annual national accounts with an expected release date of March 2020. SB is currently rebasing the national accounts to a base year of 2016. An economic census commenced in 2016 with the first phase being a business listing exercise which resulted in the identification of 14,452 establishments SB conducted a business listing exercise to provide the frame for the economic census which underpins the rebasing of the national accounts. SB and the mission developed a detailed workplan to demonstrate the magnitude of rebasing the national accounts. The workplan provided a more realistic (but still very tight) deadline for the completion of the exercise which was presented to management. SB and the mission reviewed the industry and product classifications that had been developed with assistance from the Africa Development Bank. It has been recommended that changes could still be made depending on the data available once compilation commences.

Fiscal policy --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Government policy --- Botswana --- Economic conditions. --- Macroeconomics --- General Aggregative Models: General --- National accounts --- National income

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This Technical Assistance Report discusses the findings and recommendations made by the IMF mission to assist Georgia’s National Statistics Office (Geostat) in developing a residential property price index and expanding coverage of the producer price index (PPI). The mission found that Geostat compiles a monthly PPI for industrial products. It covers mining and quarrying; manufactured products; and electricity energy, gas, steam, and hot water. PPI coverage of the services sector is currently limited to freight transport, and should be expanded to include additional services. The improved coverage of the PPI will facilitate the assessment of developments in the production and prices of services and provide more reliable indicators to derive estimates of GDP in constant prices.

Infrastructure --- Macroeconomics --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis --- Housing --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Producer price indexes --- National accounts --- Consumer price indexes --- Price indexes --- Prices --- Saving and investment --- National income --- Georgia

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This Technical Assistance Report discusses the technical advice and recommendations given by the IMF mission to the authorities of Uganda regarding compilation of quarterly national accounts statistics. The finalization of the supply and use tables has involved incorporation of significantly revised source data for a number of industries since November 2013, as well as changes in the input data resulting from the implementation of methodological improvements. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has also made a significant effort to finalize the source data and improve coverage of the economy over the past six months, resulting in revised data for a number of industries. The net impact has been to increase the GDP level by economic activity.

Macroeconomics --- Agribusiness --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- Agriculture: General --- Labor Economics: General --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Agricultural economics --- Labour --- income economics --- Price indexes --- Consumer price indexes --- Agricultural sector --- Labor --- National accounts --- Prices --- Economic sectors --- Agricultural industries --- Labor economics --- National income --- Uganda

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This paper reviews the Latin American experience with the implementation of 1993 SNAand the updating of the national accounts' base year. It also makes a preliminary assessment of the possible estimation biases in nominal GDP estimates stemming from the use of outdated national accounts base years, downwards biases with household final consumption estimates, and an overestimation of gross fixed capital formation in construction activities.

National income --- Accounting --- Evaluation. --- Net national product --- Flow of funds --- Gross national product --- Income --- Investments: General --- Macroeconomics --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Investment --- Capital --- Intangible Capital --- Capacity --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Household Analysis: General --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- National accounts --- Gross fixed investment --- Consumption --- Household consumption --- Saving and investment --- Economics --- Nicaragua