The Public Debt Management Newtwork

This policy area explains why good or best practices for government cash management are for sound debt management. Government cash management may be defined as the strategy and associated processes for managing cost-effectively the government's short-term cash flows and cash balances, both within government, and between government and other sectors.

More specifically, this policy area addresses the main objectives of efficient government cash management:

• keeping to a minimum the volume of idle balances held in the banking system, and the extra costs associated with that;
• reducing risk - operational, credit and market risk;
• adding flexibility to the ways in which the timing of government cash inflows and outflows can be matched;
• supporting other financial policies;
• the necessity for an effective collaboration between the sovereign debt manager and the central bank.

The following are documents published up to and including the year 2003. From 2004 to 2010 all documents can be found only in the archive available in the website’s Reserved area. Instead, since January 2011, all documents will be found in both areas of the website. Access to the Reserved area is free, but limited to Partners only. Please find more information at the Join us section.

Documents

• 25 April 2012 - Lagos, Nigeria

  International Cash and Treasury Management (2012)

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• Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

  Economic activity and prices in Japan and monetary policy (2010)

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