Understanding National Accounts Second Edition
Understanding National Accounts Second Edition

Author: Lequiller François

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2014-10-20

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9264214631

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This is an update of OECD 2006 "Understanding National Accounts". It contains new data, new chapters and is adapted to the new systems of national accounts, SNA 2008 and ESA 2010.

Changes in Inventories in the National Accounts
Changes in Inventories in the National Accounts

Author: Mr.Segismundo Fassler

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 1451854293

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The principles underlying the recording of changes in inventories are explained in the System of National Accounts, 1993 (1993 SNA), but operational guidelines on their measurement are lacking. This paper elaborates specific statistical techniques and their underlying assumptions for calculating changes in inventories and holding gains when only data on stocks of inventories are available. Several data situations are considered. The authors propose methods for measuring changes in inventories that meet the 1993 SNA principles. The paper also explores possibilities for implementing the proposed improvements and explains the interpretation of data on changes in inventories.

Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures
Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

Author: Christopher D. Carroll

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 022612665X

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Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, with the goal of better capturing economic heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time to examine the way consumer expenditures are currently measured, and the challenges and opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures begins with a comprehensive review of current methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and describe how the United States’s current survey practices compare with those in other nations.

Unproductive Public Expenditures
Unproductive Public Expenditures

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2005-04-04

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1557755418

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Public expenditure policy, together with efforts to raise revenue,is at the core of efficient and equitable adjustment. Public expenditureproductivity has critical implications for fiscal adjustment, particularly as the competition for limited public resources intensifies.By providing a framework for defining and analyzing public expenditureproductivity and unproductive expenditures, this pamphlet discusseshow economic policymakers may approach these issues.

System of National Accounts, 1993
System of National Accounts, 1993

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1993-03-15

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 9789211613520

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The 1993 SNA represents a major advance in national accounting. While updating and clarifying the 1968 SNA, the 1993 SNA provides the basis for improving compilation of national accounts statistics, promoting integration of economic and related statistics, and enhancing analysis of economic developments. The 1993 SNA deals more clearly with relationships between economic flows (such as production, income, savings, accumulation, and financing) and links between these flows and stocks. At the same time the 1993 SNA reflects the many significant developments that have taken place in financial markets and completes the integration of balance sheets into the system. The 1993 SNA also suggests how satellite accounts (e.g. environmental accounts) and alternative classifications (e.g., through social accounting matrices) an be used to augment the central framework of the system.

The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom
The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom

Author: Alan T. Peacock

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Published: 1993-11-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9780751202564

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This work examines public expenditure, explaining the size and the structure of the system of public finance. Suitable for use as a course text, it can function as a point of departure for empirical and analytical studies on the behaviour of governments.