United Republic of Tanzania: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics (September 23–27, 2024)
Technical Assistance Reports, March 14, 2025
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Bibliographic details
- Published: March 14, 2025
- Series: Technical Assistance Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229004428.019
Assessment overview
- Purpose: Assessment of the data quality of the public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of the United Republic of Tanzania against the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for PSDS.
- Context: Undertaken as part of a project to strengthen the quality of public sector debt in select African countries, funded by the Government of Japan.
- Mission dates: September 23–27, 2024.
- Publication date on IMF site: March 14, 2025.
Recent reforms and modernization
- Debt Database Management Section of the Debt Management Division (DMD) in the Ministry of Finance (MOF) modernized by implementing the Commonwealth Secretariat web-based debt management system (CS Meridian) in the financial year (FY) 2022/23.
- The report notes significant progress in strengthening compilation and dissemination of public sector debt statistics in recent years.
Strengths identified
- Legal and institutional framework:
- Strengths in the legal framework and institutional arrangements underpinning the compiled and reported PSDS.
- Data quality and dissemination:
- Disseminated statistics are found to be broadly reliable, transparent, and of good quality.
Key findings and recommended improvements
- Coverage:
- Recommendation to expand sector coverage beyond the budgetary central government.
- Metadata and transparency:
- Recommendation to improve the available metadata.
- Recommendation to adopt a transparent revision policy.
- Accessibility and dissemination:
- Recommendation to make the PSDS more widely available, including through the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) and the joint IMF-World Bank Quarterly Public Sector Debt Statistics database (QPSD).
Subject focus and keywords
- Subject areas: Economic and financial statistics, External debt, Financial institutions, Government debt management, Government finance statistics, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Securities.
- Keywords: data coverage, data information, Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), data transparency, debt data, debt report, Debt Reporting, Debt Transparency, Government debt management, Government finance statistics, IMF's statistics department, JSA, Public Debt, Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS), Securities, statistics database, Tanzania.
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- Section I. Detailed Assessment and Recommendations