On July 19 this year, the head of the Division for Coordinating the Statistical Evaluation of the Hidden Economy of the Department of Macroeconomic Indicators and National Accounts, Ziyoda Kamilova, made a presentation on the results of participation in the 5th regional seminar on government finance statistics (GFS) and public sector debt statistics (PSDS) on the topic “Improving the quality of fiscal statistics”, organized by the Regional Capacity Development Center for the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia of the International Monetary Fund on July 10-14, 2023 in Almaty (Kazakhstan).
The participants of the presentation were familiarized with such issues as the theoretical basis, structure and classifications of the GFS and PSDS, the main principles of consolidation and sectorization, the use of the GFS and PSDS in the analysis of budget and debt sustainability, the consistency of macroeconomic data based on the knowledge gained at the seminar.
Also during the presentation, Z. Kamilova provided information on the current state of GFS and PSDS in the countries of the region and answered questions from the participants.
