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This Technical Assistance Report discusses the findings and recommendations of the IMF mission regarding methodological soundness of all price indexes compiled by the authorities in Mauritius. The methodologies employed by Statistics Mauritius are sound and largely in line with the international guidelines and practices. All price indexes use similar aggregation methodologies and the same index compilation system. Statistics Mauritius is dependent on a consultant to maintain the compilation system. Over time it would be helpful for Statistics Mauritius to explore ways of improving the application of the Statistics Act to acquiring business survey data and administrative data from both government departments and private corporations to improve the coverage and quality of the statistics.

Macroeconomics --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Consumer price indexes --- Producer price indexes --- Price indexes --- National accounts --- Import price indexes --- Prices --- National income --- Mauritius

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This paper discusses the findings of a Technical Assistance Report on the Price Statistics Mission to Malawi. It was concluded that more than 80 percent of the country unit values selected as the price indicators for the macroprudential indicators did not provide credible indicators of pure price change over time. The compilation of the indexes could therefore not be undertaken until import and export price surveys had been initiated. Plans were developed for the conduct of an intensive program of field interviews to initialize the quarterly price collections. Training was provided on index concepts, compilation methodology, and price survey design and implementation.

Finance, Public --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- Exports and Imports --- Macroeconomics --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- Trade: General --- International economics --- Export prices --- Import prices --- Producer price indexes --- Consumer price indexes --- Imports --- Prices --- International trade --- Price indexes --- Exports --- Malawi

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This Technical Assistance Report discusses the findings and recommendations made by the IMF mission to assist Georgia’s National Statistics Office (Geostat) in developing a residential property price index and expanding coverage of the producer price index (PPI). The mission found that Geostat compiles a monthly PPI for industrial products. It covers mining and quarrying; manufactured products; and electricity energy, gas, steam, and hot water. PPI coverage of the services sector is currently limited to freight transport, and should be expanded to include additional services. The improved coverage of the PPI will facilitate the assessment of developments in the production and prices of services and provide more reliable indicators to derive estimates of GDP in constant prices.

Infrastructure --- Macroeconomics --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis --- Housing --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Producer price indexes --- National accounts --- Consumer price indexes --- Price indexes --- Prices --- Saving and investment --- National income --- Georgia

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This paper describes the primary framework associating the four principal price indices in the system of economic statistics—the Producer Price Index (PPI), the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the Export and Import Price Indices (XPI and MPI)—with the macroeconomic value aggregates they decompose into price and volume components. The paper begins by defining the basic algebra of price indices. It then discusses the definition of the value aggregates comprising the goods and services components of the System of National Accounts 1993 (1993 SNA). The paper concludes by briefly considering purchasing power parities and labor compensation indices.

Macroeconomics --- Index Numbers and Aggregation --- leading indicators --- Model Construction and Estimation --- Model Evaluation and Selection --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Consumption --- National accounts --- Price indexes --- Consumer price indexes --- Producer price indexes --- Prices --- Economics --- National income --- Australia --- Leading indicators

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As Russia’s transition unfolds, the traditional national accounts concepts and reporting mechanisms become increasingly inadequate. As a result, the margin of error associated with basic price and quantity estimates widens substantially. A selection of key measurement and interpretation issues is discussed here, in operational rather than in methodological terms.

Inflation --- Macroeconomics --- Studies of Particular Policy Episodes --- Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General --- Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Prices --- Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: National Income, Product, and Expenditure --- Money --- Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Performance and Prospects --- Price Level --- Deflation --- General Aggregative Models: General --- Consumer price indexes --- National accounts --- Producer price indexes --- Prices --- Price indexes --- National income --- Russian Federation