National Accounts

National accounts or national account systems (NAS) are the implementation of complete and consistent accounting techniques for measuring the economic activity of a nation. These include detailed underlying measures that rely on double-entry accounting. By design, such accounting makes the totals on both sides of an account equal even though they each measure different characteristics, for example production and the income from it. As a method, the subject is termed national accounting or, more generally, social accounting. Stated otherwise, national accounts as systems may be distinguished from the economic data associated with those systems. While sharing many common principles with …

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IMF: International Monetary Fund · 17 April 2024 English

The WAEMU has seen strong growth and rising living standards over the past decade. Economic growth averaged 5.4 percent in 2013-2019 and 5.8 percent in 2021-2023. Policy efforts from regional …

exchange rate 3.4 1.5 -3.6 … … … … … … … National accounts Gross national savings 19.9 19.8 18.7 22 ____________________________________________ 29 2. Selected National Accounts and Inflation Statistics, 2020-28 _______ MONETARY FUND Table 2. WAEMU: Selected National Accounts and Inflation Statistics, 2020-28 2020 2021


World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Middle East and North …

wages and subsidies. Recent developments National accounts data have not been pub- lished since Q4-2022 to 2.7 percent (y-o-y) in Q3-2023. Revised national accounts in October 2023 showed that manufacturing


WEF: World Economic Forum · 16 April 2024 English

organizations such as ours, the Schwab Foundation The report highlights the power of such data and and Bertelsmann Stiftung, began to support social calls on governments, international organizations enterprises, the …

satellite accounts are closely linked to the main national accounts system but can be focused on a certain field


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 15 April 2024 English

South Africa has many elements of sound fiscal transparency practices. Based on an assessment of fiscal transparency practices against the IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code, South Africa's practices are strongest in …

Expense; Fin = Financing; SNA = System of National Accounts; GFSM = Government Finance Statistics Manual includes a standard chapter on comparison to national accounts. See https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 12 April 2024 English

The Algerian economy was still emerging from the Covid pandemic when it was hit by spillovers from Russia’s war in Ukraine and by recurrent droughts. These shocks fueled inflation while …

___________________ 68 VIII. Rebasing of National Accounts _________________________________________ transmitted with lengthy delays (budget data for national accounts). Staff stands ready to support the authorities policy making, and that the rebasing the national accounts is an important milestone to improve data


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 12 April 2024 English

Data provision by member countries is a key input into the IMF’s surveillance activities. The 2024 Review of Data Provision to the Fund for Surveillance Purposes took place against the …

25 30 35 40 45 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 National accounts/prices Govt Finance Statistics/Public Sector questionnaire includes questions by sector (national accounts, price indices, government finance and debt


World Bank Group · 11 April 2024 English

Energy subsidy reforms are, and will continue to be, at the forefront of policy debate in many countries around the world. International experience shows that energy subsidy reforms are a …

worthwhile for agencies responsible for national accounts to consider including key energy subsectors across multiple dimensions, including the national accounts (gross domestic product [GDP], consumption get data from agencies responsible for the national accounts or to energy companies. However, in practice be worthwhile for agencies responsible for national accounts to consider including key energy subsectors


World Bank Group · 11 April 2024 English

Economic activity in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is expected to remain resilient but slow this year as a weaker global economy, slowdown in China, and lower commodity …

models, accounting frameworks to en- sure national accounts identities and global consistency, estimates


PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 11 April 2024 English

While it is widely assumed that poor countries will suffer more from climate change, and that climate change will exacerbate inequalities within countries, systematic and large-scale evidence on this issue …

Saez E and Zucman G 2018 Distributional national accounts: methods and estimates for the United States∗


World Bank Group · 11 April 2024 English

Economic activity in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is expected to remain resilient but slow this year as a weaker global economy, slowdown in China, and lower commodity …

models, accounting frameworks to en- sure national accounts identities and global consistency, estimates


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