01900cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021366 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513561493 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. Botswana : Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Mission. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (11 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students A technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted by IMF's Regional Technical Assistance Center for Southern Africa (AFS)1 during June 8-12, 2020 to assist Statistics Botswana (SB) in improving the quality of the national accounts statistics. The mission was conducted remotely respecting the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Reliable national accounts are essential for informed economic policymaking by the authorities. It also provides the private sector, foreign investors, rating agencies, donors and the public in general with important inputs in their decision-making, while informing economic analysis and IMF surveillance. Rebasing the national accounts is recommended every five years. Rebasing requires comprehensive surveys and ideally, supply and use tables (SUT) to support coherence checking of data. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2020/303 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2020/303/002.2020.issue-303-en.xml IMF e-Library