National Accounts Seminar for Latin America and the Caribbean: regional implementation of the SNA 2008 and its relationship with other systems

DETAILED PROGRAMME (PDF)

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

• Ilaria Di Matteo, UNSD

Session 3: New topics in National Accounts

Moderator: Federico Dorin, ECLAC

• Ilaria Di Matteo, DENU

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

• Proposal for measuring the South-South cooperation.  Alberto Malmierca, ECLAC  (Spanish)

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