Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-Government Finance Statistics

International Monetary Fund

No 2018/348, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: In response to a request for IMF technical assistance (TA) made by the Botswana authorities and in consultation with the IMF’s African Department, a government finance statistics (GFS) TA mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA) visited Gaborone during April 13–26, 2016. The mission is part of the GFS Module of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development-funded Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative 2. The main objective of the mission was to continue to assist the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) in the compilation and dissemination of fiscal statistics in accordance with the guidelines of the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 and Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; COFOG datum; development fund; budgetary central government; public finance; debt forgiveness; GFS compilation; intra local government transaction; local government data; accounting system; financial instrument; balance sheet; Government finance statistics; Fiscal accounting and reporting; Southern Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2018-12-06
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