Government Finance Statistics (Seiferling)

Recent improvements to the government finance statistics yearbook database in response to analytical needs by Mike Seiferling published by IMF (01/2013) indicated by Renato Villela. “The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however, such data tend to be either available in oversimplified high level aggregates and lacking in methodological transparency, or, available with a great level of detail and a unified methodological approach yet overly complicated to understand.”