The informal meeting on Official Statistics and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis will discuss the implications for official statistics arising from the systemic aspects of the global financial crisis and economic downturn of the world economy.

The Dialogue will be organized around the following themes:

Theme 1:  “Initiatives by the international statistical organizations to address the implications for official statistics of the financial crisis”

Theme 2:  “Initiatives by national statistical offices to address the implications for official statistics arising from the present financial and economic crisis”. 

Theme 3: “The implications for official statistics in linking economic growth and financial stability to living conditions and well being”.

Organizer: United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
Final Minutes of the Meeting
•	Official Statistics and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
Concept note and agenda
•	Concept Note for the Informal Meeting on “Official Statistics and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis”
Background Documents
•	Theme 1 Supporting documents:
	Press Release: "Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: third quarter 2008", European Central Bank, 30 January 2009
	Press Release: "Euro area balance of payments (geographical breakdown for the third quarter of 2008) and international investment position (at the end of the third quarter of 2008) European Central Bank, 20 January 2009
	Table 1a: Quarterly balance of payments of the euro area with a geographical breakdown European Central Bank
	Table 1b: Quarterly balance of payments of the euro area with a geographical breakdown European Central Bank
	Table 2: Quarterly balance of payments and international investment position of the euro area European Central Bank
	Official Statistics in Times of Crisis, Walter Radermacher, Eurostat
	Responding to the Financial Crisis, Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz, Director, IMF Statistics Dept.
•	Theme 2 Supporting documents:
	Sharing initiatives by national statistical offices to address the implications for official statistics arising from the present financial and economic crisis, Ivo Havinga, Chief, Economic Statistics Branch, UNSD
	ECB initiatives for comprehensive, consistent and timely statistics for the euro area, Werner Bier, Deputy Director-General Statistics, ECB
•	Other supporting documents:
	Report: HighLevel Forum on the Long Term Development of the System of National Accounts (Background Document for the UNSC)
	UNDESA Policy Brief: Massive, globally coordinated fiscal stimulus is needed: going from the drawing board to swift action
	Monthly Briefing on the World Economic Situation and Prospects
	The current global crises and their impact on social development, Commission for Social Development, Forty-seventh session, 4-13 February 2009
	International Financial Governance: Toward the London G-20 Summit
	Comparison of the ECB and IMF indicators for macro-prudential analysis
	Issues paper of the Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress - Stiglitz Commission
	Global Financial Stability Report Market Update, January 28, 2009, IMF
	Statistical Issues Arising from the Current Global Financial Crisis, December 2008, IMF Statistics Department,
	Eurostat and the European Statistical System, ESS
	Statistical Accounting Consequences of the Financial Turmoil- European Statistical System Action Plan
	Statistical Accounting Consequences of the Financial Turmoil- Communication Strategy
	Statistical Accounting Consequences of the Financial Turmoil- Eurostat Financial Turmoil Webpage
	Status Report on Information Requirements in EMU
•	Examples of commentaries provided by national statistical offices on the financial crisis
	The Daily Statistics Canada
	Statistics Netherlands
	Australian Bureau of Statistics