Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 1999

Government Finance Statistics, December 20, 1999

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Bibliographic details

• Published: December 20, 1999
• Series: Government Finance Statistics
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451981216.043

Overview and scope

• Detailed annual data for Fund member governments on revenue income by source (tax, lending, bonds, etc.) and expenditure by sector (defense, education, health, etc.) for all levels of government (national, state, local).
• Topics covered:
  • deficit/surplus or total financing
  • revenues or grants
  • expenditures
  • lending minus repayments
  • domestic financing
  • foreign financing
  • domestic debt or total debt
  • foreign debt
• Coverage of fiscal operations:
  • budgetary operations
  • extra-budgetary operations
  • social security
  • consolidated financial operations of central governments
• Includes a section devoted to a cross-country comparison of data.

Access and formats

• Available on the IMF eLibrary (multiple formats).
• Options referenced on the landing page: More Formats on IMF eLibrary; Order a Print Copy; Create Citation.

Key features for users and researchers

• Empirical focus on government revenues and expenditures disaggregated by source and sector.
• Multi-level government coverage: national, state, local.
• Consolidation and cross-country comparability allow analysis of:
  • fiscal balances and financing patterns
  • composition of revenue and expenditure
  • domestic versus foreign financing and debt structures
• Useful for studies of asset and liability management and macro-fiscal statistics.

International Monetary Fund. Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 1999 (December 20, 1999).