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Cover High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports
Malawi: Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics
Andrew Kitili
and
David S Bailey
In January/February 2025, an assessment was undertaken of the data quality of the public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Malawi against the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for PSDS. The mission was undertaken as part of a project to strengthen the quality of public sector debt in select African countries, funded by the Government of Japan. The mission reviewed the PSDS compilation and dissemination practices against each element of the DQAF and presented a series of recommendations to improve the quality and transparency of the PSDS of Malawi.
Keywords:
Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF); Debt Reporting; Debt Transparency; JSA; Public Debt; Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS); Malawi; PSDS compilation; capacity development recipient; PSDS of Malawi; debt data transparency; government data agency; Government finance statistics; Government debt management; Securities
Cover Technical Assistance Reports
Malawi: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the Improving Estimates of Gross Domestic Product Mission (June 24–July 5, 2024)
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
The mission assisted the National Statistical Office of Malawi improve the quality of the published annual estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), progressed the use of Value Added Tax (VAT) data as a basis for developing quarterly series and supported development of current price estimates of GDP based on the expenditure approach (GDP-E). Specially, the mission reviewed the quality of the published GDP series and finalized Supply and Use Tables for 2017. This allowed the development of annual current price estimates of GDP-E. In addition, the mission initiated estimation of quarterly current price estimates of GDP for some activities based on data for company sales from Malawi’s VAT system.
Keywords:
GDP; Supply and Use Tables; expenditure GDP; quarterly GDP; administrative data; value added tax; Malawi.; business processing documentation; STA Department; estimates of GDP-E; consumption expenditure; VAT data; Value-added tax; Consumer price indexes; Gross fixed investment