Linkages Between External Debt Data and Balance of Payments, Government Finance and Monetary Statistics
October 1, 1992
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Summary
This paper examines the linkages between key macroeconomic statistics: external debt, balance of payments, government finance, and monetary statistics, which enable analysts and policy makers to monitor economic developments. The paper reviews statistical compilation issues and concludes that, while considerable progress has been made in recent years to account for external debt and related flows, further progress must be made. It makes recommendations, such as improved communication among compilers of related statistics, that may help compilers to achieve greater consistency between statistics concerned and thereby enhancing their usefulness for analysts and policy makers. The need for increased resources to develop statistical systems is also recognized.
Subject: Arrears, Balance of payments statistics, Economic and financial statistics, External debt, External sector statistics, Government finance statistics
Keywords: Africa, Arrears, balance of payments, balance of payments compiler, Balance of payments statistics, current account, debt, debt data, debt flow, debt restructuring arrangement, debt statistics, deficit, External sector statistics, Global, Government finance statistics, restructuring arrangement, stock data, transactions data, WP
Pages:
28
Volume:
1992
DOI:
Issue:
093
Series:
Working Paper No. 1992/093
Stock No:
WPIEA0931992
ISBN:
9781451951158
ISSN:
1018-5941
