Guatemala: Technical Assistance Report-Statistics Technical Assistance and Training Evaluation Mission

International Monetary Fund

No 2015/306, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper discusses the key findings of the report on statistics technical assistance (TA) and training evaluation mission on Guatemala. It is observed that overall users trust macroeconomic statistics in Guatemala. Data-producing agencies viewed TA and training provided by Statistics Department, IMF during 1998–2015 as most effective to improving the quality of statistics. There is broad recognition of the Bank of Guatemala’s key role in producing and disseminating statistics. There was consensus that TA and training were effective and helped enhance data quality of all datasets, but to a modest extent Government Finance Statistics and Producer Price Index. The effectiveness of TA largely depends on capacity built in the main data-producing agencies.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; information; Guatemala; technical assistance; ROSC mission; data-producing agency; Evaluation mission; review TA report; base year; TA mission; TA provider; macroeconomic statistics; evaluation mission; position data; recipient agency; TA recommendation; reviews Guatemala's data; Government finance statistics; External sector statistics; Data dissemination; Central America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50
Date: 2015-11-13
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