The IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Module on EconData provides around 500 concepts and data for over 200 reference areas, with 5 year forecasts for each forecast vintage. This dataset was ingested by Jan-Hendrik Pretorius. Today’s post shows how IMF projections of South Africa’s public debt to GDP have been revised over time. The IMF do not project that debt will stabilise.
EconData makes it possible to download time series of around a million public domain time series and their real-time vintages in modeling-ready format. You can automate models and dashboards, whether you work in excel or using R or Python, without having to manually copy data from individual data release documents. The user guide that describes the dataset is available publicly here: https://econdata.co.za/user-guide/international/imf/
