Technical Assistance Reports
2025
April 25, 2025
Mongolia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on National Accounts Mission (September 30 – October 11, 2024)
Description: A technical assistance mission assisted the National Statistical Office of Mongolia (NSO) in improving methods for the compilation of national accounts. The mission recommended that the NSO compiles the chain-linked time series of quarterly GDP instead of using the fixed-base approach. During the mission, the experimental chain-linked time series were compiled with the reference year 2015. Chained-linked time series undoubtedly have a great advantage over the use of a fixed base year, since they consider the updated structure of the economy and provide more reliable results that will be used for domestic policymaking and international surveillance.
April 25, 2025
Republic of Kazakhstan: Technical Assistance Report-Report on National Accounts Mission (November 6 – 17, 2023)
Description: A technical assistance mission assisted the Bureau of National Statistics under the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan in developing quarterly national accounts. It did so by reviewing existing large statistical discrepancies between GDP by production and GDP by expenditure. The mission provided recommendations on improving data sources for the compilation of changes in inventories. The mission also reviewed the release schedule for national accounts data and provided recommendations for further improvement. These improvements to data and a new release schedule will improve the understanding of the Kazakhstan economy, both for domestic policymaking and international surveillance.
April 18, 2025
Brazil: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Government Finance and Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (August 5–16, 2024)
Description: This technical assistance (TA) mission on Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS) was conducted in Brazil during August 5–16, 2024. The primary objective of the mission was to assist the authorities in their efforts to enhance data quality and strengthen the compilation and dissemination of fiscal and public debt data for analysis and decision-making, in line with internationally comparable best practices and standards. In addition, the mission reviewed the progress made by the authorities in implementing previous TA recommendations and assisted in developing a proposed five-year work program (2024–2029) aimed at strengthening Brazil’s fiscal statistics and establishing the necessary conditions for their adoption as official statistics for policy purposes.
April 18, 2025
St. Lucia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on External Sector Statistics Mission (October 28–November 1, 2024)
Description: As part of the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC) work program on External Sector Statistics (ESS) a technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Saint Lucia during October 28–November 1, 2024. The mission focused on data collection issues related to the Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP), and the work program to improve estimates for trade in goods, travel exports, and direct investment.
April 11, 2025
Cyprus: Technical Assistance Report-Managing Government Employment and Compensation
Description: At the request of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (MOF) of Cyprus, a capacity development mission from the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) visited Nicosia during the period June 18 – July 1, 2024. The purpose of the mission was to review the levels and composition of government employment and compensation and identify policy options to ensure adequate and sustainable compensation spending.
April 9, 2025
Haiti: Technical Assistance Report-Governance Diagnostic Report
Description: The Governance Diagnostic (GD) Report is prepared by IMF staff at the request of the Haitian authorities. Informed by political economy analysis, the GD discusses the nature and severity of corruption, its relevance to Haiti’s fragility, and its impact on the anti-corruption, anti-money laundering frameworks and the rule of law (especially judicial integrity). It also discusses governance weaknesses and corruption vulnerabilities in the fiscal governance and financial sector oversight. These governance weaknesses and vulnerabilities appear in the context of endemic violence that has undermined the legitimacy of state institutions. The GD Report proposes a set of time-bound reform measures aimed at strengthening economic governance, rule of law and reducing corruption vulnerabilities.
April 9, 2025
Malawi: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (January 29-February 4, 2025)
Description: This report discusses the findings and recommendations of a diagnostic assessment of the quality of public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Malawi based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework for PSDS. The assessment was undertaken in February 2025 as part of a project to strengthen the quality of public sector debt data in select African countries, funded by the Government of Japan. Like many low-income countries, Malawi is facing challenges servicing its public debt. The latest joint IMF-World Bank debt sustainability analysis of January 2024 indicates that the country is in debt distress. The authorities have taken measures lately to strengthen governance and transparency of public debt. In 2022, Malawi enacted a new Public Finance Management Act providing a legal framework for government borrowing as well as the issuance and management of guarantees by government including guarantees to State-owned enterprises. The key recommendations of the diagnostic assessment include enacting a new legislation to address public debt management operations in line with the practice in the region; expanding the sector coverage of public debt beyond the budgetary central government; expanding instrument coverage to other accounts payables; reconciling stocks and flows and publishing the results transparently; enhancing the frequency of public debt reports and reactivating the dissemination of debt through the National Summary Data Page as well as the joint IMF-World Bank Quarterly Public Sector Debt statistics database. The authorities have adopted recommendations and developed an action plan to implement them in a phased manner.
April 9, 2025
South Africa: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the Virtual Energy Accounts Mission (February 13–17, 2025)
Description: A technical assistance (TA) mission was delivered virtually to Statistics South Africa between February 13–17, 2025. The objective of the mission was to provide assistance to Statistics South Africa in the validation and release of the energy accounts for 2015–21 that had been compiled by StatsSA with STA’s technical assistance (TA). The mission reviewed the compiled energy accounts and provided recommendations on improving these accounts further. It also discussed with the authorities the main priorities for developing air emissions accounts. An action plan for the compilation of the air emissions accounts and improvements in energy accounts was developed and agreed with the authorities. These initiatives are crucial for South Africa's climate policy formulation and international reporting obligations.
April 4, 2025
Republic of Uzbekistan: Technical Assistance Report-Macro Stress Testing of the Uzbek Banking Sector
Description: The Technical Assistance (TA) mission, conducted in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from August 21 to 31, 2023, assisted the Central Bank of Uzbekistan’s (CBU) authorities in developing their stress testing (ST) framework for the banking sector. This TA was the second of a multi-mission TA project following on the recommendations of the 2020 Financial Sector Stability Review (FSSR). This mission duly assessed the progress on the implementation of the previous mission (2022) that had introduced a multi-horizon ST tool based on explicit macroeconomic scenarios along with a credit risk satellite model. The purpose of this mission was to build on the earlier work and further strengthen the capacity of the Financial Stability Department (FSD) staff to carry out stress tests and thus assess the resilience of the Uzbek banking system. The high-level objectives of the mission encompassed improving performance of the credit risk and profit & loss satellite models, providing training on ST scenario design with working procedures for cross-departmental collaboration, and setting up guidelines to operate, maintain and improve the ST toolkit and communicate the results with senior management and general public.
April 4, 2025
Suriname: Technical Assistance Report; Financial Stability, Monetary Policy, and Central Bank Communication
Description: At the request of the Central Bank of Suriname (CBvS), this technical assistance (TA) mission assessed and provided recommendations to enhance the transparency, consistency, and stakeholder engagement of monetary policy and financial stability communication. Strengthening communication in these areas is critical to reinforcing the CBvS’s credibility, aligning its practices with international standards, and supporting its mandate for price and financial stability. The mission recommended institutionalizing structured decision-making by implementing fixed schedules for Monetary Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) and Financial Stability Advisory Committee (FSAC) meetings, followed by policy-setting Executive Board sessions. These efforts should be supported by the introduction of forward-looking publications, including a Monetary Policy Report (MPR) and an enhanced Financial Stability Report (FSR), ensuring more structured and transparent communication. To further strengthen engagement, the report emphasizes the importance of proactive outreach and capacity-building programs to improve public understanding, foster market confidence, and reinforce CBvS’s credibility. Implementing these measures will enhance transparency, facilitate clearer communication of policy decisions, and help regain public trust in the CBvS’s commitment to monetary and financial stability.