Impact Investment Funds for Frontier Markets in Southeast Asia

Manuel Stagars is an economist and senior researcher at Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), interested in the technological and institutional aspects of data and data policy. He is also a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of global experience. Manuel has a particular interest in emerging and frontier economies in Southeast Asia. He is also the author of Impact Investment Funds for Frontier Markets in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Preface

1     Introduction

1.1      Who
is this book for?

1.2      What
is new in this analysis?

1.3      Factors
of quality in national statistical systems

1.4      Motivation
for this research

2     Tools
to Standardize and Monitor Statistical Capacity and Data Quality

2.1      United
Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics

2.2      System
of National Accounts

2.3      IMF
Data Dissemination Standards

2.3.1       General
Data Dissemination Standard

2.3.2       Special
Data Dissemination Standard

2.3.3       Differences
between the SDDS and the GDDS

2.3.4       European
Statistics Code of Practice

2.4      ACSS
Code of Practice

2.4.1       ACSS
Data Quality Assessment

2.4.2       European
Statistical System and ASEAN Community Statistical System: A brief comparison

2.5      World
Bank Statistical Capacity Indicator

2.5.1       Methodology
of the SCI

3     Method
and Data Sources to Analyze Data Quality in the ASEAN

3.1      Method
used in this study

3.1.1       Factors,
dimensions, and indicators of data quality

3.1.2       Rating
scale

3.1.3       Definition
of “data users”

3.2      Data
sources

4     Data
Quality Analysis of Group A: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the
Philippines

4.1      Indonesia

4.2      Singapore

4.3      The
Philippines

4.4      Malaysia

5     Data
Quality Analysis of Group B: Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei

5.1      Thailand

5.2      Vietnam

5.3      Brunei

6     Data
Quality Analysis of Group C: Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar

6.1      Laos

6.2      Cambodia

6.3      Myanmar

7     Conclusion
and Outlook: Towards Open Data and ASEAN Economic Community

7.1      Overview
of Results

7.2      Outlook:
High-Quality Insights Need High-Quality Inputs

Appendix: Results by dimensions and factors