Making Public Debt Public—Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options—Background Paper

Download or read book Making Public Debt Public—Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options—Background Paper written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Background Paper provides technical information to accompany the main paper “Making Public Debt Public: Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options”. It provides further empirical evidence of benefits of public debt transparency and elaborates on two elements that can be used to enhance it: (i) sound practices in public debt management and (ii) available international data standards and publicly available debt databases.