A framework and methodology for compilation and presentation of monetary and financial statistics.
The Government Finance Statistics System (GFS) is designed to provide statistics for the analysis of fiscal policy. The manual is intended to be a reference volume describing the GFS system.
The code identifies desirable transparency practices for central banks in their conduct of monetary policy and for central banks and other financial agencies in their conduct of financial policies.
The code contains transparency requirements to provide assurances to the public and to capital markets that a sufficiently complete picture of the structure and finances of government is available so as to allow the soundness of fiscal policy to be reliably assessed.
The GDDS serves to guide countries in the provision to the public of comprehensive, timely, accessible and reliable economic, financial and socio-demographic data.
The SDDS serves to guide countries that have, or that might seek, access to international capital markets in the dissemination of economic and financial data to the public.
The BPM5 is an international statistical standard that provides guidance to IMF member countries in the compilation of balance of payments and related data on the international investment position. The BPM5 is broadly consistent with the concepts and definitions encompassed in the System of National Accounts 1993.
The 1993 SNA provides the core framework for macroeconomic statistics describing all transactions and other flows within a time period between the economic agents constituting the national economy and their stocks of assets.
