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Promoting Implementation of UN Handbook on NPI Satellite Account in Asia 12,500,000 yen [Grant Project] Center for Civil Society Studies, Johns Hopkins University (USA) The NPI satellite account can quantify NPO activities in national accounts. Since the publication of the Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System of National Accounts prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division and Johns Hopkins University in 2003, the practice of NPI satellite accounts has been spreading throughout the world, but its penetration is lagging in Asian countries. SPF supported in 2003-2004 a project to study the application of NPI accounts to Japanese statistics, and expected to take some actions to spread the use of the accounts in Asia. The project aims to promote recognition of the accounts by government officials, statistics researchers, and NPI in Asian countries so that the compilation of accounts will be practiced in those countries in the future. The following activities are planned in the final year of the project through collaboration with New Zealand and Australia, both of which have hands-on experiences with NPI satellite accounts. Nine focus countries chosen as targets, namely the Philippines, Kyrgyz, Japan, China, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, South Korea and Pakistan, in a belief that they are the most likely adopters.
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