Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Mission

IMF Staff Country Reports, November 18, 2020

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• Published: November 18, 2020
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513561493.002

Mission overview

• A technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted by IMF’s Regional Technical Assistance Center for Southern Africa (AFS) during June 8–12, 2020 to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) in improving the quality of the national accounts statistics.
• The mission was conducted remotely respecting the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Publication date: November 18, 2020.
• Pages: 11
• Volume: 2020
• Issue: 303
• Series: Country Report No. 2020/303
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513561493.002
• Stock No: 1BWAEA2020003
• ISBN: 9781513561493
• ISSN: 1934-7685

Importance of national accounts and context

• Reliable national accounts are essential for informed economic policymaking by the authorities.
• National accounts provide the private sector, foreign investors, rating agencies, donors and the public in general with important inputs in their decision-making, while informing economic analysis and IMF surveillance.
• Rebasing the national accounts is recommended every five years.
• Rebasing requires comprehensive surveys and ideally, supply and use tables (SUT) to support coherence checking of data.

Technical recommendations and methodological priorities

• Conduct rebasing of the national accounts on a five-year cycle.
• Carry out comprehensive surveys to support rebasing.
• Develop and use supply and use tables (SUT) to support coherence checking of data.

Thematic coverage (as listed)

• Data collection
• Economic and financial statistics
• Economic sectors
• Financial sector
• Health
• International trade
• National accounts
• Trade in services

Keywords (as listed)

• Africa
• CR
• Data collection
• Financial sector
• ISCR
• SB frame
• SB list
• SB staff
• Southern Africa
• taxpayer list
• Trade in services
• weighted index

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