Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 2012
Series: Government Finance Statistics -- Volume 36, Year 12; Government Finance Statistics -- Volume 36, Year 12.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9781475570342; 9781475575903; 9781475571158; 9781616354053
Subjects: Public Finance; Business & Economics
Description: The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however, such data tend to be either available in oversimplified high level aggregates and lacking in methodological transparency, or, available with a great level of detail and a unified methodological approach yet overly complicated to understand. The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Yearbook shows fiscal data of around 140 countries following the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 framework. The associated database includes data series covering over an almost 40 year period. The IMF's Statistics Department embarked on several initiatives to improve its accessibility.
Notes: English.