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IMF Country Report No. 18/261
REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT-WORK OF MISSION ON DEVELOPMENT OF POTENTIAL IN AREA
December 2018
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Republic of Belarus
February 2018
Report of the Government Finance Statistics Capacity Development Mission (November 13 – 24, 2017)
Prepared by Dalia Budko
The contents of this report constitute technical advice provided by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the authorities of the Republic of Belarus (the “recipient”) in response to their request for technical assistance (TA). This report (in whole or in part) or summaries thereof may be disclosed by the IMF to IMF Executive Directors and members of their staff, as well as to other agencies or instrumentalities of the TA recipient, and upon their request, to World Bank staff and other technical assistance providers and donors with legitimate interest, unless the TA recipient specifically objects to such disclosure (see Operational Guidelines for the Dissemination of Technical Assistance Information). Publication or disclosure of this report (in whole or in part) or summaries thereof to parties outside the IMF other than agencies or instrumentalities of the TA recipient, World Bank staff, other technical assistance providers and donors with legitimate interest shall require the explicit consent of the TA recipient and the IMF Statistics Department.
Contents
Glossary
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
DETAILED OVERVIEW AND MISSION RECOMMENDATIONS
A. Source data: budget classifications and conversion tables
B. Annual reporting for 2016
C. Capital injections into enterprises
D. Noncash operations
E. Coverage of GFS
F. Dissemination of debt statistics
TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
A. Action plan for the introduction of GFSM 2014
B. Implementation of recommendations from the GFS mission (July 22 through August 2, 2013)
C. Conversion tables
D. Revision of GFS data for 2016
E. Letter from the Republic of Belarus Ministry of Finance
F. Versions of the recalculation of transactions in financial assets and liabilities in 2016, millions of rubles
G. Models for recording tied loans in GFS
H. Model for recording the nuclear power plant in GFS
I. List of officials met during the mission
Glossary
| AMA | Asset Management Agency |
| BC | Budget Classification |
| GG | General Government |
| GFS | Government finance statistics |
| GFSM 1986 | Government Finance Statistics Manual 1986 |
| GFSM 2014 | Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 |
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| ICS | Integrated Collection System |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IPSAS | International Public Sector Accounting Standards |
| MoF | Ministry of Finance |
| NPIs | Nonprofit institutional units |
| NPP | Nuclear power plant |
| NB | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
| NSC | National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus |
| OJSC | Open Joint-Stock Company |
| PSDSG | Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users |
| PS | Public Sector |
| RB | Republic of Belarus |
| SNA 2008 | System of National Accounts 2008 |
| SOE | State-owned enterprise |
| SSF | Social Security Fund under the Ministry of Labor and Social Security |
| STA | IMF Statistics Department |
| TA | Technical assistance |
| WB | The World Bank |