Policy Papers

Making Public Debt Public—Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options—Background Paper

Publication Date:

October 3, 2023

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This Background Paper provides technical information to accompany the main paper “Making Public Debt Public: Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options”. It provides further empirical evidence of benefits of public debt transparency and elaborates on two elements that can be used to enhance it: (i) sound practices in public debt management and (ii) available international data standards and publicly available debt databases.

Series:

Policy Paper No. 2023/038

Subject:

Economic and financial statistics External debt Financial institutions Government debt management Government finance statistics Monetary policy Political economy Public debt Public financial management (PFM) Securities

Notes:

Making Public Debt Public—Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options

Frequency:

occasional