Republic of Belarus: Technical Assistance Report-Work of Mission on Development of Potential in Area of Government Finance Statistics
IMF Staff Country Reports, December 11, 2018
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- Published: December 11, 2018
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484373934.002
Mission purpose and scope
- A government finance statistics (GFS) technical assistance (TA) mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA) visited Minsk from November 13 through 24, 2017.
- Main objective: to take stock of the progress in government finance statistics in the Republic of Belarus and to provide assistance to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) in improving the quality of statistical data.
- Emphasis on introducing GFS methodology into budgeting to achieve consistency in budgeting, financial reporting, and statistics.
Key findings and analytical points
- GFS provides a comprehensive conceptual and accounting framework suitable for the analysis and evaluation of fiscal policy and the performance of the general government sector.
- Adoption of common terminology across budgeting, reporting, and statistics is expected to:
- Ensure common understanding among stakeholders.
- Enhance comparability of numbers, tables, and accounts.
- Improve productivity and the timely availability of data.
Subjects and thematic coverage
- Budget planning and preparation
- Economic and financial statistics
- Economic sectors
- Financial institutions
- Government finance statistics
- Loans
- Public financial management (PFM)
- Public sector
- Securities
Keywords and technical terms featured
- accounts payable
- acquisition of financial assets
- budget loan
- Budget planning and preparation
- capital transfer
- CR
- debt forgiveness
- enterprise
- Government finance statistics
- incurrence of liability
- ISCR
- Loans
- national budget
- net incurrence
- Public sector
- RB budget system
- Republic of Belarus GFS
- Securities
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