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  "title": "Algeria: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, February 4, 2014",
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  "summary": "This Informational Annex highlights that data provision in Algeria has some shortcomings, but is broadly adequate for surveillance. Data are published with a delay of less than one month.",
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      "heading": "Data quality and timeliness — summary findings",
      "content": "- Data provision in Algeria has some shortcomings, but is broadly adequate for surveillance.\n- Data are published with a delay of less than one month.\n- Monetary statistics compiled by the authorities are largely in line with the methodology in the 2000 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and its companion 2008 Compilation Guide."
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      "heading": "Government finance statistics — key shortcomings",
      "content": "- Insufficient institutional coverage.\n- Classification problems.\n- Long lags for production of statistics.\n- Lack of reconciliation of financing with the monetary accounts."
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      "heading": "Root causes identified",
      "content": "- Lack of financial resources allocated to the compilation of statistics.\n- Insufficient interagency coordination.\n- Concern about accuracy that gives rise to reluctance to publish provisional data."
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    {
      "heading": "Implications for surveillance and statistical development",
      "content": "- While overall data are broadly adequate for surveillance, weaknesses in government finance statistics undermine full transparency and timely policy analysis.\n- Alignment of monetary statistics with international manuals supports monetary surveillance, but fiscal statistics require targeted improvements to reconcile financing and monetary accounts."
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      "heading": "Policy-oriented actions (as implied by findings)",
      "content": "- Allocate financial resources to strengthen the compilation of statistics.\n- Improve interagency coordination to address coverage and classification issues.\n- Establish procedures and safeguards to allow publication of provisional fiscal data to reduce long lags.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Algeria: 2013 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report No. 14/32, January 9, 2014\n  - Algeria: 2013 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report No. 14/32, January 9, 2014 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Algeria: 2013 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report No. 14/32, January 9, 2014 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: February 4, 2014",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475566215.002",
    "Data provision in Algeria has some shortcomings, but is broadly adequate for surveillance.",
    "Data are published with a delay of less than one month.",
    "Monetary statistics compiled by the authorities are largely in line with the methodology in the 2000 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and its companion 2008 Compilation Guide.",
    "Insufficient institutional coverage.",
    "Classification problems.",
    "Long lags for production of statistics.",
    "Lack of reconciliation of financing with the monetary accounts.",
    "Lack of financial resources allocated to the compilation of statistics.",
    "Insufficient interagency coordination.",
    "Concern about accuracy that gives rise to reluctance to publish provisional data.",
    "While overall data are broadly adequate for surveillance, weaknesses in government finance statistics undermine full transparency and timely policy analysis.",
    "Alignment of monetary statistics with international manuals supports monetary surveillance, but fiscal statistics require targeted improvements to reconcile financing and monetary accounts.",
    "Allocate financial resources to strengthen the compilation of statistics.",
    "Improve interagency coordination to address coverage and classification issues.",
    "Establish procedures and safeguards to allow publication of provisional fiscal data to reduce long lags.",
    "**Algeria: 2013 Article IV Consultation; IMF Country Report No. 14/32, January 9, 2014**"
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