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IMF Country Report No. 21/258
REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT—MULTI-TOPIC STATISTICS DIAGNOSTIC
This Technical Assistance Report on the Republic of Uzbekistan was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed in May of 2021.
December 2021
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Republic of Uzbekistan
Report on Multi-Topic Statistics Diagnostic Mission (March 1–19,2021)
May 2021
Prepared by ArtakHarutyunyan (head), EdgardoRuggiero, Evrim Bese Goksu, Levan Gogoberishvili, Brian Graf, Viera Karolova, Marco Martinez, and Vakhtang Pkhakadze
The contents of this report constitute technical advice provided by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the authorities of Uzbekistan (the “TA recipient”) in response to their request for technical assistance. 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, including members of the Steering Committee of CCAMTAC, 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, including members of the Steering Committee of CCAMTAC, shall require the explicit consent of the TA recipient and the IMF’s Statistics Department.
Contents
Glossary
SUMMARY OF MISSION OUTCOMES AND PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS
DETAILED TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
A. Cross-cutting Issues
B. National Accounts and Price Statistics
C. Government Finance Statistics/Public Sector Debt Statistics
D. Monetary and Financial Statistics
E. External Sector Statistics
F. Special Data Dissemination Standard
ACTION PLAN
A Cross-cutting Recommendations
B. National Accounts and Price Statistics
C. Government Finance Statistics/Public Sector Debt Statistics
D. Monetary and Financial Statistics
E. External Sector Statistics
F. Special Data Dissemination Standard (Road Map for Subscription)
TABLES
1. Priority Recommendations
2. Expanding the Coverage of GFS by end-March 2022
3. Current Data Dissemination Practices vis-a-vis SDDS Requirements
APPENDIXES
I. Officials Met During the Mission
II. Sources and Methods for the Compilation of Annual National Accounts
III. Sources and Methods for the Compilation of Quarterly National Accounts
IV. Financial System of Uzbekistan
Glossary
| 7993 SNA | System of National Accounts 1993 |
| 2008 SNA | System of National Accounts 2008 |
| ARC | Advance Release Calendar |
| ARD | Accounting and Reporting Department, CBU |
| BOP | Balance of payments |
| BPD | Balance of Payments Statistics Division, FRBPD, CBU |
| BSU | Banking Statistics Unit, MFSD, SRD, CBU |
| CBU | Central Bank of Uzbekistan |
| CCAMTAC | Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia Regional Capacity Development Center |
| CD | Capacity development |
| CGD | Central government debt |
| CGO | Central government operations |
| COAs | Charts of accounts |
| CBS | Central bank survey |
| CDD | Customs Declaration Database |
| CIF | Cost, insurance, and freight |
| CPF | Cumulative Pension Fund |
| CPI | Consumer price index |
| DEPDD | Domestic and External Public Debt Department |
| Dl | Direct investment |
| DSBB | Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board |
| DCs | Depository corporations |
| DCS | Depository corporations survey |
| DGF | Deposit Guarantee Fund |
| DM FAS | Debt Management and Financial Analysis System |
| EBF | Extra-budgetary funds |
| EDS | External debt statistics |
| EDS Guide | External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2013 |
| e-GDDS | Enhanced General Data Dissemination System |
| ESS | External sector statistics |
| FCs | Financial corporations |
| FOB | Free on board |
| FRBPD | Foreign Exchange Regulation and Balance of Payments Department, CBU |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GFMIS | Government Financial Management Information System |
| GFS | Government finance statistics |
| GFSD | Government Finance Statistics and Transparency Division, MOF |
| GFSM 1986 | Manual on Government Finance Statistics 1986 |
| GFS M 2014 | Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 |
| GGO | General government operations |
| GVA | Gross value added |
| HBS | Household Budget Survey |
| ICs | Insurance companies |
| IMDA | Insurance Market Development Agency |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IMTS | International Merchandise Trade Statistics |
| IRMD | International Reserves Management Department |
| ISBS | Informational Storage of Banking System |
| ISS | International statistical standards |
| ITRS | International Transactions Reporting System |
| FISIM | Financial intermediation services indirectly measured |
| HFCE | Household final consumption expenditure |
| IFRSs | International Financial Reporting Standards |
| IFS | International Financial Statistics |
| IPI | Industrial production index |
| LCs | Leasing companies |
| MCD | Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF |
| MFS | Monetary and financial statistics |
| MFSD | Monetary and Financial Statistics Division, SRD, CBU |
| MFSMCG | Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide |
| MOF | Ministry of Finance |
| MOU | Memorandum of understanding |
| MSU | Monetary Statistics Unit, MFSD, SRD, CBU |
| NA | National accounts |
| NAD | Macroeconomic Indicators and National Accounts Department, SSC |
| NOE | Non-observed economy |
| NPISH | Nonprofit institutions serving households |
| NSDP | National Summary Data Page |
| OBAs | Off-budget accounts |
| ODCs | Other depository corporations |
| ODCS | Other depository corporations survey |
| OFCs | Other financial corporations |
| OFCSU | Other Financial Corporations Statistics Unit, MFSD, SRD, CBU |
| PDSDU | Publication and Dissemination of Statistical Data Unit, MFSD, SRD, CBU |
| PPI | Producer price index |
| PSCOD | Prudential Supervision of Credit Organizations Department |
| PSD | Price Statistics Department, SSC |
| PSDS | Public sector debt statistics |
| QEDS | Quarterly External Debt Statistics |
| RCF | Rapid Credit Facility |
| RFI | Rapid Financing Instrument |
| sec | State Customs Committee |
| SDDS | Special Data Dissemination Standard |
| SDDS Guide | Special Data Dissemination Standard: Guide for Subscribers and Users |
| SDR | Special Drawing Rights |
| SFA | Stock-flow adjustment |
| SOEs | State-owned enterprises |
| SRD | Statistics and Research Department, CBU |
| SRF | Standardized report form |
| SSC | State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics |
| SSFs | Social security funds |
| SUT | Supply and use tables |
| TA | Technical assistance |
| TRSE | Tashkent Republican Stock Exchange |
| TSA | Treasury single account |
| FRD | Fund for Reconstruction and Development |
| ULA | Uzbekistan Lessors Association |
| VAT | Value added tax |
| XMPI | Export and import price indexes |