Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users: Guide for Compilers and Users

Manuals & Guides, December 8, 2011

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The guide responds to the global financial crisis of recent years and the associated large fiscal deficits and debt levels that have impacted many countries, underscoring the importance of reliable and timely government statistics and public sector debt as a critical element in countries fiscal and external sustainability.
Public Sector Debt Statistics is the first international guide of its kind.
Primary objectives:
- Improve the quality and timeliness of key debt statistics.
- Promote a convergence of recording practices to foster international comparability.
- Serve as a reference for national compilers and users for compiling and disseminating public sector debt data.

Prepared in consultation with countries and international agencies, including the nine organizations of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS).
The guide's preparation was based on the broad range of experience of IMF institutions and benefitted from consultation with national compilers of government finance and public sector debt statistics.

The guide's concepts are harmonized with those of:
- the System of National Accounts (2008)
- the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition

Subject areas: Business enterprises, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Government debt management, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Public sector, Securities
Keywords included in the publication metadata: accounts payable, Business enterprises, debt, debt liability, debt statistics, financial asset, financial instrument, Global, Government debt management, M&G, Public sector, public sector debt statistics, Securities, stock position, Western Hemisphere