United Nations
National Accounts Seminar for Latin America and the Caribbean: regional implementation of the SNA 2008 and its relationship with other systems
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The Seminar will address topics such as the state of implementation of the SNA 2008 at global level; the quarterly national accounts; the quarterly accounts for institutional sectors; the historical series of national accounts; the integrated systems for economic statistics and classifications; the social expenditure and national accounts; the new IMF national accounts manual; the measurement of the South-South Cooperation, among others.
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Tuesday - November 8
Session 1: Inauguration of the Seminar: Goals, Organization and Logistic Matters
Welcome words
- Pascual Gerstenfeld, Director of ECLAC Statistics Division
- Ilaria Di Matteo, Statistics Division of United Nations (UNSD)
Participants introduction
Submission and approval of the Agenda
- Giovanni Savio, Chief of the Economics and Environmental Statistics Unit, Statistics Division, ECLAC
Session 2: Overview of the Implementation of National Accounts at Global Level
Moderator: Giovanni Savio, ECLAC
Session 3: New topics in National Accounts
Moderator: Federico Dorin, ECLAC
Session 4 - Follow-up of the last meetings of the Statistical Conference of the Americas
Moderator: Federico Dorín, ECLAC
- Agreements of the SCA and group's activities. Giovanni Savio , ECLAC (Spanish)
- SCA National Accounts working group. Máximo Fajardo (INEI, Peru) (Spanish)
- Informal sector. Cristian Tercero (Central Bank, Honduras) (Spanish)
- Quarterly National Accounts . Misael Díaz (Banco Central, República Bolivariana de Venezuela) (Spanish)
Session 5 - South-South Cooperation Measurement, state of the art and ECLAC proposal
Moderator: Enrique Oviedo, ECLAC
Wednesday – November 9
Session 6 - Quarterly National Accounts
Moderator: Ivonne Newland, Statistical Institute, Jamaica
- Quarterly regional aggregates, estimation and methodology. Giannina López, ECLAC (Spanish)
- Institutional Sector Accounts. Ana Luz Bobadilla, Consultant, IMF (Spanish)
- Quarterly accounts of the institutional sectors. Rebecca Palis, IBGE, Brazil (Spanish)
Session 7 - Historical Series of National Accounts
Moderator: Patricia Marchant, ECLAC
- Methodological issues and international good practices. Susana Kidyba, INDEC, Argentina (Spanish)
- Country experience: Costa Rica. Gabriela Saborio, Central Bank, Costa Rica (Spanish)
Session 8 - Economical Statistics Integrated Systems and Classifiers
Moderator: María Paz Collinao, ECLAC
- Instruments for streamlining the SNA Statistical Production. Mara Silvia Riestra, Consultant, ECLAC (Spanish)
Session 9 - Social Expenditure and National Accounts
Moderator: Hernán Hernández, ECLAC
- Social expenditure estimates from National Accounts: A proposal for education, health and social security. Varinia Tromben, ECLAC (Spanish)
- Vision of the social security from the perspective of PAHO-WHO. Claudia Pescetto, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (Spanish)
- Social Security in National Accounts. Federico Dorín, ECLAC
Thursday - November 10
Session 9 - Social Expenditure and National Accounts (Continuation)
Moderator: Hernán Hernández, ECLAC
- Measuring the social expenditure in National Accounts: Peru. Henrry Meza, INEI, Perú (Spanish)
- Social expenditure: Estimation of Social Security and National Health Accounts, Caribbean countries. Stanley Lalta, UWI, Trinidad and Tobago
Session 10 - Relationship between Balance of payments and National Accounts
Moderator: Lourdes Erro, Central Bank, Uruguay (Spanish)
- Impact of integrating the Balance of payments with National Accounts in Uruguay. Kariné Hagopián Keossian, Central Bank, Uruguay (Spanish)
- Balance of payments and National Accounts's estimates gaps. Differences in the assessment. Patricia Marchant, ECLAC (Spanish)
Session 11 - Information on the International Comparison Program (ICP)
Moderator: Giovanni Savio, ECLAC
- Institutional and methodological issues of the new rounds. Patricia Goldzier, Consultant, World Bank
- Operational issues of the International Comparison Program rolling benchmark. William Vigil-Oliver, World Bank
- Regional governance. How we are getting ready for a new round. María Paz Collinao, ECLAC (Spanish)
Session 12 - Closure of the Seminar
- Conclusions and closure words
