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      "content": "- Designed to meet the basic needs of economists and statisticians.\n- Provides an explanation of the key principles underlying macroeconomic statistics when viewed as an integrated system.\n- Highlights interrelationships between various sectors and provides a bridge linking:\n  - national accounts,\n  - balance of payments,\n  - government finance statistics, and\n  - monetary and financial statistics.\n- Simplifies many concepts, explains common features and differences, and shows how the four key statistical areas harmonize.\n- Provides examples demonstrating practical application and uses of concepts within the conceptual framework.\n- Completely updates Pamphlet No. 29, Macroeconomic Accounts: An Overview, by Poul Hølst-Madsen (published in 1985)."
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      "content": "- Emphasis on integrated treatment of macroeconomic accounts statistics to assist readers in understanding main concepts underlying these statistics.\n- Uses examples to demonstrate practical application across the four key statistical areas.\n- Subject coverage includes:\n  - Balance of payments,\n  - Commercial banks,\n  - Financial institutions,\n  - Financial statements,\n  - Foreign direct investment,\n  - Income,\n  - National accounts,\n  - Portfolio investment,\n  - Public financial management (PFM)."
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      "content": "- Asset\n- Balance of payments classification\n- Balance of payments current account balance\n- Balance sheet\n- Capital accounts of the balance of payments\n- Commercial banks\n- Financial statements\n- Foreign direct investment\n- Incurrence of liability\n- Liability symmetry\n- Net acquisition\n- Net incurrence\n- PAM\n- Portfolio investment\n- Value"
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      "content": "- Economists and statisticians seeking a conceptual, harmonized view of macroeconomic statistics.\n- Users requiring clear explanations of interrelationships among national accounts, balance of payments, government finance statistics, and monetary and financial statistics.\n- Practical application through examples to support understanding and implementation within statistical frameworks.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- The System of Macroeconomic Accounts Statistics: An Overview; IMF Pamphlet no. 56; 2007.\n  - The System of Macroeconomic Accounts Statistics: An Overview; IMF Pamphlet no. 56; 2007. (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - The System of Macroeconomic Accounts Statistics: An Overview; IMF Pamphlet no. 56; 2007. (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Pam56f\n  - Pam56f (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Pam56f (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- pam56s\n  - pam56s (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - pam56s (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/pamphlet-series/issues/2016/12/31/the-system-of-macroeconomic-accounts-statistics-an-overview-19789"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589066205.054",
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    "Provides examples demonstrating practical application and uses of concepts within the conceptual framework.",
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