Making Public Debt Public—Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options—Background Paper
Policy Papers, October 3, 2023
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Bibliographic details
- Published: October 3, 2023
- Series: Policy Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400257254.007
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.
- It elaborates on two elements that can be used to enhance public debt transparency:
- (i) sound practices in public debt management
- (ii) available international data standards and publicly available debt databases.
Major themes and findings
- Empirical evidence:
- The paper presents further empirical evidence of benefits of public debt transparency.
- Elements to enhance transparency:
- Sound practices in public debt management.
- Available international data standards and publicly available debt databases.
Policy relevance and focus areas
- Enhancing public debt transparency through:
- Strengthening sound public debt management practice.
- Adopting and aligning with public debt data standards.
- Improving access to and usability of publicly available debt databases.
Metadata and classification
- 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
- Keywords: B. public debt transparency; data standards initiative; debt transparency; Global; Government debt management; Government finance statistics; IMF team; public debt data standards; public debt databases; public debt management; public debt transparency; Securities; Sound public debt management practice
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