Botswana: Technical Assistance Report—National Accounts Mission

August 24, 2021

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Botswana: Technical Assistance Report—National Accounts Mission, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

A remote technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted by IMF’s Regional Technical Assistance Center for Southern Africa (AFS)1 during April 12–16, 2021 to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) in improving the quality of the national accounts statistics. 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. The System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) recommends that the national accounts be rebased every five years. Rebasing requires comprehensive surveys and ideally, supply and use tables (SUTs) to support coherent checking of data.

Subject: Corporate income tax, International organization, Monetary policy, National accounts, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Africa, Corporate income tax, Mission SB, SB review, Southern Africa, Statistic s department, Statistics Botswana, TA provider, Value-added tax

Publication Details

Pages:

11
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2021/185
Stock No:

1BWAEA2021002
ISBN:

9781513594422
ISSN:

1934-7685

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