Learning Corner

Public Financial Management Sector

Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAPS) and Public Financial Management (PM) : Concepts, Assessment and Monitoring - By : Susan Adams (PFTAC Coordinator) & Suhas Joshi (Public Finance Advisor)

Quantitative Techniques for Macroeconomic Analysis

• Exercises on Basic Analytical Skills for Financial Programming
• Basic Analytical Methods : covers the following topics -
  • Growth in Macroeconomic variables : Percent Changes;
  • Calculating the Growth in Nominal Variables from Changes in Real Variables (Volume) and Price Chagnes (Deflators or Unit Values) and Vice Versa;
  • Elasticities;
  • Forecasting Changes in Consumer Prices

• State Accounting : Country Experiences
• Public Finance : Linkages to Macroeconomic Polic

Economics Statistics Sector

Challenging Economic Statistics in the Pacific -- Perspectives from PFTAC, Fiji,Solomon Islands and Tuvalu

Statistics New Zealand Newsletter

Financial Sector Supervision Sector

Role of Financial Sector Supervisors in AML/CFT (Presented by Andrew Milford to the Pacific Financial Intelligence Units and Transnational Crime Units workshop - 5 June 2007)

Tax Administration & Policy Sector

Tax Administration and Policies in the Pacific Islands -- Challenges and Opportunities over the Medium Term

Principles of Tax Self-Assessment

IMF Working Papers

IMF Working Paper on Political Budget Cycles in PNG -- Ebrima Faal (WP/07/219)

IMF Working Paper on Growth and Productivity in PNG -- Ebrima Faal (WP/06/113)