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Session 2.1.

Project Overview

Mahinthan Joseph Mariasingham

Asian Development Bank

Project Inception Meeting

ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines

8-9 April 2015

• Background

• The Technical Assistance

– Objectives

– Impact and Outcome

– Key Activities

– Implementation Arrangements

Presentation Outline

Background

The Supply and Use tables

� Provides a balanced supply of goods and services by

domestic production and imports; and the use of goods

and services for intermediate consumption; and final use

Table 1. Simplified Supply and Use Table

Supply of goods and services

Total Supply and

Use at purchasers

prices

Uses of goods and services

Domestic output at

basic prices

Imported products

c.i.f.

Trade and transport margins

Taxes less subsidies

on products

Intermediate

consumption

Final consumption expenditure

GCF Exports

Products (CPC)

-1

-2

..

(k)

The Supply and Use tables

• Tool for national economic analyses and

planning, and essential in a highly globalized

market

• Provide building blocks for developing:

– Symmetric national input-output table (IOT);

– International SUT and IOT

Project Motivations

• UNSC recommended the adoption of the

2008 SNA in April 2008 to

• capture new developments;

• meet the increasing demands of data user; and

• supports the implementation of the RPES

endorsed by the heads of NSOs

• Yet, only 5 of the 22 economies in the ICP

2011 are 2008 SNA compliant

Project Motivations

• RETA 6483 produced 18 national SUTs in 2012

• Outputs of the project are considered

pioneering but challenges remain:

• Mostly based on 1993 SNA recommendations

• Reference years vary

(some going as far back as 2005)

• NO SUT updates were produced in most

participating economies since 2013

Project Motivations

∗ Limited number of Asian economies in existing international IO databases

Table 2. List of Asian Countries included international IOT DatabasesGTAP 8 OECD IDE-JETRO WIOD

19 10 10 7

Australia Australia PRC Australia

Bangladesh PRC Indonesia PRC

Cambodia India Japan India

Hong Kong, China Indonesia Korea Indonesia

India Japan Malaysia Japan

Indonesia Korea Philippines New Zealand

LAO PDR New Zealand Singapore South Korea

Malaysia Taipei,China Taipei,China

Mongolia Thailand Thailand

Nepal Viet Nam Viet Nam

New Zealand

Pakistan

Philippines

PRC

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Taipei,China

Thailand

Viet Nam

The Technical Assistance

Objectives

R-CDTA 8838Approved in December 2014 primarily to:

�support evidence-based decision making;

�provide tools for analyzing a range of economicphenomena;

�continue collaborative statistical work withnational statistics offices (NSOs); and

�sustain the development of SUTs and IOTs in theregion

Impact

• Increased implementation of international standards in national accounts compilation and increased comparability of data across economies

• Increased implementation of international standards in national accounts compilation and increased comparability of data across economies

Outcome

• Improved capability of NSOs for measuring levels of economic output and increased availability of SUT data for upstream and downstream analysis and research

• Improved capability of NSOs for measuring levels of economic output and increased availability of SUT data for upstream and downstream analysis and research

Impact and Outcome

• By the end of the project, it is envisaged that:

• All participating economies:

– are able to compile benchmark and updated SUTs;

– have GDPs that incorporates SNA 2008 recommendations; and

– have reliable and accurate data for measuring and monitoring economic output.

• Outputs are used (by stakeholders) for time series and cross-country analysis of economic outputs and structures for the region

Expected Outputs

1. Updated and/or benchmark SUTs

2. Time series annual national SUTs

3. Time series annual international SUTs and

IOTs;

4. National accounts staff trained in

compiling SUTs

Key Activities

• Preparatory work

• Estimating benchmark national SUTs

• Estimating time series annual national SUTs

• Constructing time series Asian international

IOTs

• Conducting regional and in-country technical

discussions, workshops, and training

Mahinthan Joseph Mariasingham

mmariasingham@adb.org; +63-6326744; +63-6362361

Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department

ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines

For more details, visit us online at:

http://www.adb.org/data/icp http://wpqr4.adb.org/sut

Thank you