Technical Assistance Reports

Malawi: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the Improving Estimates of Gross Domestic Product Mission (June 24–July 5, 2024)

January 17, 2025

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International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. "Malawi: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the Improving Estimates of Gross Domestic Product Mission (June 24–July 5, 2024)", Technical Assistance Reports 2025, 003 (2025), accessed March 16, 2025, https://0-doi-org.library.svsu.edu/10.5089/9798400298745.019

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Summary

The mission assisted the National Statistical Office of Malawi improve the quality of the published annual estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), progressed the use of Value Added Tax (VAT) data as a basis for developing quarterly series and supported development of current price estimates of GDP based on the expenditure approach (GDP-E). Specially, the mission reviewed the quality of the published GDP series and finalized Supply and Use Tables for 2017. This allowed the development of annual current price estimates of GDP-E. In addition, the mission initiated estimation of quarterly current price estimates of GDP for some activities based on data for company sales from Malawi’s VAT system.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Expenditure, Gross fixed investment, National accounts, Prices, Taxes, Value-added tax

Keywords: Administrative data, Business processing documentation, Consumer price indexes, Consumption expenditure, Estimates of GDP-E, Expenditure GDP, GDP, Gross fixed investment, Malawi., Quarterly GDP, STA Department, Supply and Use Tables, Value added tax, Value-added tax, VAT data

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