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  "title": "Albania: Technical Assistance Report–Monetary and Financial Statistics and Financial Accounts Mission",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, October 3, 2019",
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  "summary": "This Technical Assistance report on Albania focuses on: compiling and disseminating flow-based monetary and financial statistics (MFS) for the central bank, other depository corporations (ODCs), and other financial corporations (OFCs); compiling and disseminating quarterly financial accounts by inst",
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      "heading": "Scope and objectives",
      "content": "- Compile and disseminate flow-based monetary and financial statistics (MFS) for:\n  - the central bank\n  - other depository corporations (ODCs)\n  - other financial corporations (OFCs)\n- Compile and disseminate quarterly financial accounts by institutional sectors.\n- Develop a from-whom/to-whom matrix for financial instruments.\n- Review the quality of Albania’s flow-based MFS, sectoral financial accounts, and balance sheets, and provide technical guidance to improve their quality."
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      "heading": "Key findings and analytical importance",
      "content": "- The Monetary Policy Committee has requested flow-based monetary statistics as an additional vehicle to understand money and credit developments in the Albanian economy.\n- Financial accounts by sector and financial balance sheets are considered increasingly important for analysis of financial stability and other macroeconomic developments.\n- The mission reviewed existing practices and provided technical guidance aimed at improving the quality of MFS, sectoral financial accounts, and balance sheets."
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      "heading": "Recommendations and implementation timeline",
      "content": "- The mission recommended that the Bank of Albania (BOA) begins compiling quarterly sectoral financial accounts and balance sheets by mid-2021, starting with data from the first quarter of 2017.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1.   Priority Recommendations\n  - 1.   Priority Recommendations (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1.   Priority Recommendations (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: October 3, 2019",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513516387.002",
    "Compile and disseminate flow-based monetary and financial statistics (MFS) for:",
    "Compile and disseminate quarterly financial accounts by institutional sectors.",
    "Develop a from-whom/to-whom matrix for financial instruments.",
    "Review the quality of Albania’s flow-based MFS, sectoral financial accounts, and balance sheets, and provide technical guidance to improve their quality.",
    "The Monetary Policy Committee has requested flow-based monetary statistics as an additional vehicle to understand money and credit developments in the Albanian economy.",
    "Financial accounts by sector and financial balance sheets are considered increasingly important for analysis of financial stability and other macroeconomic developments.",
    "The mission reviewed existing practices and provided technical guidance aimed at improving the quality of MFS, sectoral financial accounts, and balance sheets.",
    "The mission recommended that the Bank of Albania (BOA) begins compiling quarterly sectoral financial accounts and balance sheets by mid-2021, starting with data from the first quarter of 2017.",
    "**1.   Priority Recommendations**"
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