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Algeria: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation

February 4, 2014

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Algeria: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This Informational Annex highlights that data provision in Algeria has some shortcomings, but is broadly adequate for surveillance. Data are published with a delay of less than one month. Key shortcomings in government finance statistics include insufficient institutional coverage, classification problems, long lags for production of statistics, and lack of reconciliation of financing with the monetary accounts. Key factors behind these weaknesses include the lack of financial resources allocated to the compilation of statistics, insufficient interagency coordination, and concern about accuracy that give rise to reluctance to publish provisional data. Monetary statistics compiled by the authorities are largely in line with the methodology in the 2000 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and its companion 2008Compilation Guide.

Subject: Credit, Expenditure, Exports, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, International trade, Money, Oil prices, Prices

Keywords: CR, Credit, Exports, Fiscal stance, Global, Holding, Hydrocarbon revenue volatility, Import growth, Inflation, Interest rate, ISCR, Liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident, Maghreb, MCM expert, MCM mission, Oil prices, Real gross domestic product

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    56

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2014/032

  • Stock No:

    1DZAEA2014001

  • ISBN:

    9781475566215

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685