Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics

December 6, 2018

Summary

In response to a request for IMF technical assistance (TA) made by the Botswana authorities and in consultation with the IMF’s African Department, a government finance statistics (GFS) TA mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA) visited Gaborone during April 13–26, 2016. The mission is part of the GFS Module of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development-funded Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative 2. The main objective of the mission was to continue to assist the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) in the compilation and dissemination of fiscal statistics in accordance with the guidelines of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 and Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users.

Subject: Economic and financial statistics, Expenditure, Fiscal accounting and reporting, Government finance statistics, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration

Keywords: accounting system, balance sheet, budgetary central government, COFOG datum, CR, debt forgiveness, development fund, financial instrument, Fiscal accounting and reporting, GFS compilation, Government finance statistics, intra local government transaction, ISCR, local government data, public finance, Southern Africa

Pages:
25
Volume:
2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484387887.002
Issue:
348
Series:
Country Report No. 2018/348
Stock No:
1BWAEA2018002
ISBN:
9781484387887
ISSN:
1934-7685

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