THE Third Regional Technical Training on the Development and Applications of Statistical Business Registers (SBR) was officially opened by Pengiran Hajah Siti Nirmala binti Pengiran Mohammad, Deputy Permanent Secretary (Economy and Finance), Prime Minister’s Office.
Organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on November 20–25, the regional technical training is conducted by expert consultants from ADB, The United Nations Statistics Nation (UNSD) and The United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Participants are officials from Brunei Darussalam, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
In her opening speech, Pengiran Hajah Siti Nirmala highlighted that effective economic policymaking requires rigorous analysis of high quality data, and hence the roles of the participants are key to the collection, compilation, storage, management, analysis and dissemination of economic information related to their countries.
According to a press release, many countries in Asia and the Pacific are in the process of modernising, strengthening and improving their SBR, with ADB support. The benefits of having well established and functioning SBR are to provide information on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as large enterprises, enrich the depth of knowledge about these enterprises and thus further improve the quality of economic and business statistics.
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