Recent developments in the national accounting system of Hungary

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Drechsler, László

Abstract: Internal problems of the national accounting system of a country are generally of limited international interest only. Two features of the Hungarian practice may, nevertheless, capture the attention of those interested in international comparability and in the development of some methodological problems: – Hungary is a country (presumably the only country in the world) which publishes regularly both MPS and SNA series. – Since the Hungarian economy was strongly hit by the ‘price explosions’ in the decade 1973–1983 (more than 20 per cent terms of trade deterioration), much attention was devoted to the so-called problems of ‘inflation accounting’, some of them still being unsolved in international statistics.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1984-2302

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 243-253, 1984