Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Technical Assistance Report on Government Finance Statistics Mission (October 4-29, 2021)

July 29, 2022

Preview Citation

Format: Chicago

Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Technical Assistance Report on Government Finance Statistics Mission (October 4-29, 2021), (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2022) accessed December 24, 2024

Summary

This paper presents Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s Technical Assistance report on government finance statistics (GFS) mission. There has been a progress on a gradual basis in the timeliness of GFS compilation and dissemination to the IMF due to an improvement in coordination between the Fiscal Policy and Law Department and data providers on the provision of source data, but these data are still not reconciled in a more regular and timelier basis. Monthly budget execution data which is used for GFS compilation, such as other allowances and subsidies in expenditure in particular, are aggregated and prepared according to source data from the data providers. The Annual budget for FY2022 including fiscal package including fiscal measures for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic response was submitted to the National Assembly in Nov/Dec 2021. The report recommends to coordinate with relevant departments including the Budget Department in the reporting system and/or the Inter-ministerial Committee to collect data for COVID-19 related spending for tracing and monitoring the spending.

Subject: Economic and financial statistics, Expenditure, International organization, Monetary policy, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Budget execution and treasury management, Capital spending, Data dissemination to IMF, Execution data, Government finance statistics, IMF capacity development office, IMF's Statistics Department, PSDS data compilation

Publication Details

Pages:

21
Volume:

---
DOI:

---
Issue:

---
Series:

Country Report No. 2022/261
Stock No:

1LAOEA2022001
ISBN:

9798400219702
ISSN:

1934-7685

FACTSHEETS

RESOURCES

TOPICS

Flagship Publications

Other Publications

IMF reports and publications by country

Regional Offices

All News

See Also

For Journalists

Press Center

RESOURCES

FLAGSHIPS

KEY SERIES

IMF NOTES

IMF Staff Country Reports