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Annual Report 1997

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Contents   (104k PDF version of full text)

List of Abbreviations

 
I. Introduction
 
II. Executive Summary
Recent Trends in Global Balance of Payments Statistics
Committee Work Program
 
III. Recent Trends in Global Balance of Payments Statistics
Introduction
Global Current Account
Global Capital and Financial Accounts
 
IV.      Work Program Undertaken by the Committee—1997
1997 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
Financial Derivatives
Trade in Services
Trade in Goods
Reserve Assets and Reserves-Related Data
Direct Investment
Securities Database
Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual
International Banking Statistics
Developments at the Regional Level
Balance of Payments Statistics Newsletter
 
V. Future Work Program
 
Tables
  1. Global Discrepancies in Current Account, 1990–96
  2. Global Discrepancies in Capital and Financial Accounts,
   1990–96
 
Boxes
  1.   Internet Site for the IMF Committee
  2. New International Standards for Financial Derivatives
 
Appendices
  1. IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics:
   Composition as of December 31, 1997
  2. Terms of Reference of the IMF Committee on Balance of
   Payments Statistics
  3. Medium-Term Work Program of the IMF Committee on
   Balance of Payments Statistics: End-December 1997