TY - BOOK ID - 133415235 TI - A Monthly Indicator of Economic Growth for Low Income Countries PY - 2020 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Statistics KW - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth KW - Environmental Accounts KW - Macroeconomics: Production KW - General Aggregative Models: General KW - General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) KW - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data) KW - Econometrics & economic statistics KW - Economic growth KW - National accounts KW - Economic and financial statistics KW - Production index KW - Business cycles KW - Production KW - National income KW - Economic statistics KW - Economic theory KW - Guatemala UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133415235 AB - Monthly economic indicators support policy analysis of current economic developments and forecasting. This paper presents an overview of the data and statistical requirements to develop those indicators taking into account resource constraints that LIC typically face. We review statistical procedures for developing these indicators under the System of National Accounts and propose a general procedure to derive a monthly composite indicator of economic growth in low income economies. ER -