letrinhan/imf-weo-fiscal-panel

IMF WEO general-government fiscal panel (country × year)

Country-year panel of IMF World Economic Outlook general-government fiscal indicators: revenue, expenditure, fiscal and primary balances, gross/net debt, and structural balance (% of GDP). Wide table is the primary product for panel regressions. a long table is included for extension. Includes weo_vintage, is_forecast, and actual_cutoff from WEO metadata.

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Files

weo_fiscal_panel (7878 rows)

• data/weo_fiscal_panel.csv
• data/weo_fiscal_panel.dta
• data/weo_fiscal_panel.xlsx

weo_fiscal_long (43676 rows)

• data/weo_fiscal_long.csv
• data/weo_fiscal_long.dta
• data/weo_fiscal_long.xlsx

Load

Stata:

use "data/weo_fiscal_panel.dta", clear

R:

df <- read.csv("data/weo_fiscal_panel.csv")

SPSS: open the .xlsx or .csv file.

Source

International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (WEO) database, accessed via the IMF SDMX 3.0 Data API (https://data.imf.org/). © International Monetary Fund. All rights reserved. Redistribution must comply with IMF terms of use: https://www.imf.org/external/terms.htm Indicator codes and country names preserved. derived columns documented in README.

Primary access: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO and IMF SDMX API https://data.imf.org/

Method: Fetch WEO fiscal series via the IMF SDMX API, reshape to iso3 x year wide/long panels with vintage and forecast flags. Cleaning and panel assembly are automated in this repository (Python).

Citation

@misc{imf_weo_fiscal_panel,
  title = {World Economic Outlook Database},
  author = {{International Monetary Fund}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO}},
  note = {General-government fiscal indicators; country-year panel pack}
}

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