TY - BOOK ID - 84783097 TI - Togo : Selected Issues. PY - 2015 SN - 1513576402 151352528X PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Corporate Finance KW - Inflation KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Production and Operations Management KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures KW - Other Public Investment and Capital Stock KW - Price Level KW - Deflation KW - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change KW - Industrial Price Indices KW - Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis KW - Prices KW - Macroeconomics: Production KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Economic growth KW - Investment & securities KW - Public investment spending KW - Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP) KW - Structural transformation KW - Food prices KW - Expenditure KW - Public investments KW - Public-private sector cooperation KW - Economic development KW - Togo UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84783097 AB - This Selected Issues paper discusses the assessment of economic activity in Togo in absence of quarterly GDP series. Togo collects about 40 macroeconomic indicators monthly that span a wide range of sectors of the economy. The selection of the variables for the economic activity index is conducted by finding the combination of variables. The indicators are aggregated into an index using a methodology used by the Conference Board. Then an economic activity index is constructed that effectively replicates the historical growth rates of real GDP in Togo. The selected index minimizes the deviations between the growth rates of the indicator and actual real GDP growth over 2002–13. ER -