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  "title": "Mauritius: Technical Assistance Report—Report on Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (September 4-12, 2025)",
  "publication": "Technical Assistance Reports, December 10, 2025",
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  "summary": "This report discusses the findings and recommendations of a diagnostic assessment of the quality of public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Mauritius based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for PSDS.",
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      "heading": "Assessment scope and context",
      "content": "- The assessment applied the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS).\n- The mission took place in September 2025 as part of an initiative funded by the Government of Japan to strengthen public sector debt data in select African countries.\n- Publication: Technical Assistance Report No. 2025/102, 32 pages."
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      "heading": "Public debt levels and fiscal risk",
      "content": "- Mauritius’ public debt is estimated to be 86 percent of GDP at the end of the 2024/25 fiscal year (end of June 2025).\n- Consolidated gross public debt was 64 percent of GDP at the end of December 2019, just before the Covid pandemic.\n- The rise in public debt over the last five years has translated into a high risk of sovereign stress according to IMF’s latest debt sustainability analysis of June 2025."
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    {
      "heading": "Data dissemination and reporting practices",
      "content": "- Mauritius subscribes to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).\n- The authorities submit quarterly debt data to the Joint IMF-World Bank Quarterly Public Sector Debt statistics database (QPSD).\n- Quarterly debt data are disseminated regularly and timely via:\n  - The National Summary Data Page (NSDP) of the SDDS.\n  - The QPSD.\n- The Ministry of Finance (MOF) publishes a range of detailed quarterly public sector debt tables on their website."
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      "heading": "Key findings on data quality and coverage",
      "content": "- Debt reports could be made more comprehensive through the inclusion of all debt instruments.\n- User needs could be better met by:\n  - Clearly presenting revisions.\n  - Publishing stock-flow reconciliations.\n  - Improving metadata.\n  - Ensuring consistency with other macroeconomic statistics.\n- Legislative and administrative arrangements could be further strengthened, including by designating PSDS as official statistics subject to the oversight and safeguards of the Statistics Act."
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      "heading": "Recommendations and actions",
      "content": "- The mission made recommendations to:\n  - Expand instrument coverage in debt reports.\n  - Present revisions clearly and provide stock-flow reconciliations.\n  - Improve metadata and cross-statistics consistency.\n  - Strengthen legislative and administrative frameworks, including designation of PSDS as official statistics under the Statistics Act.\n- The authorities have accepted the mission recommendations and developed an action plan to implement them in a phased manner.\n\nSource: Mauritius: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (September 4-12, 2025).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Tarea2025102 Source Pdf\n  - Tarea2025102 Source Pdf (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Tarea2025102 Source Pdf (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/technical-assistance-reports/issues/2025/12/09/mauritius-technical-assistance-report-report-on-data-quality-assessment-for-public-sector-572280"
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    "Published: December 10, 2025",
    "Series: Technical Assistance Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229028868.019",
    "The assessment applied the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS).",
    "The mission took place in September 2025 as part of an initiative funded by the Government of Japan to strengthen public sector debt data in select African countries.",
    "Publication: Technical Assistance Report No. 2025/102, 32 pages.",
    "Mauritius’ public debt is estimated to be 86 percent of GDP at the end of the 2024/25 fiscal year (end of June 2025).",
    "Consolidated gross public debt was 64 percent of GDP at the end of December 2019, just before the Covid pandemic.",
    "The rise in public debt over the last five years has translated into a high risk of sovereign stress according to IMF’s latest debt sustainability analysis of June 2025.",
    "Mauritius subscribes to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).",
    "The authorities submit quarterly debt data to the Joint IMF-World Bank Quarterly Public Sector Debt statistics database (QPSD).",
    "Quarterly debt data are disseminated regularly and timely via:",
    "The Ministry of Finance (MOF) publishes a range of detailed quarterly public sector debt tables on their website.",
    "Debt reports could be made more comprehensive through the inclusion of all debt instruments.",
    "User needs could be better met by:",
    "Legislative and administrative arrangements could be further strengthened, including by designating PSDS as official statistics subject to the oversight and safeguards of the Statistics Act.",
    "The mission made recommendations to:",
    "The authorities have accepted the mission recommendations and developed an action plan to implement them in a phased manner.",
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