The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Yearbook: Maps of Government for 74 Countries

June 1, 2011

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The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Yearbook: Maps of Government for 74 Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

A useful but little known feature of the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (GFSY) is the information on the structure of governments. Institutional tables, included in the GFSY, provide detail on the central, state, and local levels of governments, social security, and extrabudgetary units. We refer to the main levels of government as GL1, GL2, and GL3 in ascending order of institutional coverage. We present maps of the various levels of government for 74 countries to illustrate the usefulness of this database and make it more accessible to users. The maps provide information about how centralized or decentralized government finances and employment are and their size relative to the overall economy. Government map data facilitate the monitoring of fiscal policy and fiscal rules.

Subject: Economic and financial statistics, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Government finance statistics

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Country, Fiscal indicators, Fiscal statistics, General government, Global, Government, Government activity, Government employee, Government finance statistics, Government map, Government sectors, Government structure, Local government, Middle East and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Hemisphere, WP

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14
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Working Paper No. 2011/127
Stock No:

WPIEA2011127
ISBN:

9781455264391
ISSN:

1018-5941

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