Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Mission

November 18, 2020

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Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Mission, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

A technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted by IMF’s Regional Technical Assistance Center for Southern Africa (AFS)1 during June 8–12, 2020 to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) in improving the quality of the national accounts statistics. The mission was conducted remotely respecting the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Reliable national accounts are essential for informed economic policymaking by the authorities. It also provides the private sector, foreign investors, rating agencies, donors and the public in general with important inputs in their decision-making, while informing economic analysis and IMF surveillance. Rebasing the national accounts is recommended every five years. Rebasing requires comprehensive surveys and ideally, supply and use tables (SUT) to support coherence checking of data.

Subject: Data collection, Economic and financial statistics, Economic sectors, Financial sector, Health, International trade, National accounts, Trade in services

Keywords: Africa, CR, Data collection, Financial sector, ISCR, SB frame, SB list, SB staff, Southern Africa, Taxpayer list, Trade in services, Weighted index

Publication Details

Pages:

11
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2020/303
Stock No:

1BWAEA2020003
ISBN:

9781513561493
ISSN:

1934-7685

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