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Republic of Madagascar: Technical Assistance Report—Report on Technical Assistance Mission in External Sector Statistics (July 2-13, 2018)

April 30, 2019

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Republic of Madagascar: Technical Assistance Report—Report on Technical Assistance Mission in External Sector Statistics (July 2-13, 2018), (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This Technical Assistance report highlights that the mission visited Madagascar to aid in the external sector statistics (ESS), including the balance of payments and international investment position (IIP). The mission focused on assisting improving the coverage of IIP by better using the administrative sources or by identifying new data sources for private sector. A more sustained effort must be applied to the collection system to ensure the timelier submission of data of adequate quality. The compilation of the quarterly ESS, which is one of the main ESS objectives, requires both an increase in the number of compilers and a change of approach in the collection of source data. The quarterly data are compiled on the basis of the ESRI and should be supplemented by the collection of quarterly data using a simple survey of major public and private enterprises. The mission recommended a detailed one-year action plan with a set of priority recommendations carrying particular weight to make headway in improving the ESS.

Subject: Balance of payments, Balance of payments statistics, Data collection, Economic and financial statistics, External position, External sector statistics, Foreign direct investment, International investment position

Keywords: Account transactions, Accounts receivable, Balance of payments, Balance of payments statistics, Balance of payments transaction, BFM, BFM survey form, CR, Data, Data collection, ESS data sets, External sector statistics, Foreign direct investment, Goods data, Import transaction, International investment position, Investment project, ISCR, Reserve assets transaction, Transaction

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    27

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2019/110

  • Stock No:

    1MDGEA2019002

  • ISBN:

    9781498312134

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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