The meeting of the TAGES aims at setting priorities areas in economic statistics and national accounts, sharing knowledge and best practices, and following-up on the work by ESCWA member countries.The 4th TAGES Meeting aims at:
1. Review of what was discussed during the inception webinar on the System of National Accounts (SNA)
Presentation of the activities and work programs, the adopted methodologies and the problems encountered in the applications in the countries along a set of regional priorities recommended by the Advisory Group in its previous meeting:
2. The informal economy in the national accounts
3. Digitization and the digital economy (Supply and Use tables
4. Digitization and e-commerce, externa trade data exchange
5. New methods for Data Collection (Price Statistics and Statistical Business Register)
6.Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals, statistics on climate change and disasters, and environment accounts