Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs
Title | Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs PDF eBook |
Author | Mr.Mike Seiferling |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2013-01-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1475580711 |
The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however, such data tend to be either available in oversimplified high level aggregates and lacking in methodological transparency, or, available with a great level of detail and a unified methodological approach yet overly complicated to understand. The IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (GFSY) withdata over an almost 40 year period for almost 140 countries is a valuable database but with a complex structure requiring some specialty knowledge that most data users do not have. The IMF's Statistics Department embarked on several initiatives to improve its accessibility. The purpose of this paper is to provide a non-technical overview of the methodology and advantages of the GFSY database and discussion of how the database is improving to better meet the needs of the user community.
Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs
Title | Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs PDF eBook |
Author | Mr.Mike Seiferling |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2013-01-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1475528256 |
The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however, such data tend to be either available in oversimplified high level aggregates and lacking in methodological transparency, or, available with a great level of detail and a unified methodological approach yet overly complicated to understand. The IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (GFSY) withdata over an almost 40 year period for almost 140 countries is a valuable database but with a complex structure requiring some specialty knowledge that most data users do not have. The IMF's Statistics Department embarked on several initiatives to improve its accessibility. The purpose of this paper is to provide a non-technical overview of the methodology and advantages of the GFSY database and discussion of how the database is improving to better meet the needs of the user community.
Government Finance Statistics Yearbook
Title | Government Finance Statistics Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Finance, Public |
ISBN |
Government Finance Statistics Yearbook
Title | Government Finance Statistics Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | |
Pages | 711 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781557753007 |
Vertical Fiscal Imbalances and the Accumulation of Government Debt
Title | Vertical Fiscal Imbalances and the Accumulation of Government Debt PDF eBook |
Author | Inaki Aldasoro |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2014-11-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1484357558 |
Delegating fiscal decision making power to sub-national governments has been an area of interest for both academics and policymakers given the expectation that it may lead to better and more efficient provision of public goods and services. Decentralization has, however, often occurred on the expenditure and less on the revenue side, creating “vertical fiscal imbalances” where sub-national governments’ expenditures are not financed through their own revenues. The mismatch between own revenues and expenditures may have consequences for public finance performance. This study constructs a large sample of general and subnational level fiscal data beginning in 1980 from the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook. Extending the literature to the balance sheet approach, this paper examines the effects of vertical fiscal imbalances on government debt. The results indicate that vertical fiscal imbalances are relevant in explaining government debt accumulation suggesting a degree of caution when promoting fiscal decentralization. This paper also underlines the role of data covering the general government and its subectors for comprehensive analysis of fiscal performance.
Multiple Dimensions of Human Development Index and Public Social Spending for Sustainable Development
Title | Multiple Dimensions of Human Development Index and Public Social Spending for Sustainable Development PDF eBook |
Author | Iana Paliova |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2019-09-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1513515748 |
Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) — standard of living, education and health, and their relationship with public social spending for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The study estimates the effects of public social spending on gross national income (GNI) per capita (in PPP in $), expected years of schooling and life expectancy for a sample of 68 countries. The relationship is robust to controlling for a variety of factors and the estimated magnitudes suggest a positive long-run effect of public educational spending on GNI per capita, public educational spending on expected years of schooling, and public health expenditures on life expectancy.
Government Finance Statistics Yearbook
Title | Government Finance Statistics Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | |
Pages | 807 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Finance |
ISBN | 9781557753960 |