This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC)—Data Module provides an assessment of The Gambia’s macroeconomic statistics against the recommendations of the General Data Dissemination System, complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data...

This Report of the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) Data Module provides an assessment of Tajikistan’s macroeconomic statistics against the recommendations of the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS), complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data...

The report highlights the actions taken by the authorities to address the issues raised by the 2002 Data Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) mission for all macroeconomics statistics included in the ROSC exercise, namely national accounts, price, government finance, monetary,...

Hong Kong SAR's government faces the dual challenges of volatile revenue and medium term spending pressures arising from a rapidly aging population. Age-related spending pressures raise long-run sustainability concerns, while revenue volatility creates risks to service provision, possibly...

Nicaragua’s report on the Observance of Standards and Codes examines Data Module, response by the authorities, and detailed assessments using the data quality assessment framework. The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit provides an institutional environment for compiling budgetary...

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...

This report on the Observance of Standards and Codes data module provides a review of Malawi’s data dissemination practices against the IMF’s General Data Dissemination System (GDDS), complemented by the in-depth assessment of the quality of five macroeconomic datasets. With the...

This report on Oman’s Observance of Standards and Codes examines Data Module, response by the authorities, and detailed assessments using the data quality assessment framework. Omani authorities have strongly committed to adhering to internationally accepted standards and good practices...

This data module of the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) contains a summary assessment of dissemination practices in Ecuador relative to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). It also presents an assessment of data quality for national accounts,...

This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) data module provides an assessment of the Republic of Belarus’s macroeconomic statistics against the recommendations of the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the...