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Balance of Payments Home Page

Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB): metadata on SDDS and GDDS data categories

External Debt Statistics: debt data, conference on capital flows and debt statistics, final draft Guide for Compilers and Users, and other selected publications

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Current and Capital Transfers

• Use of DAC Statistics on Grant Disbursements for Balance of Payments Compilation (BOPCOM-00/25)

Data Quality

• The Dimension of Data Quality in the Compilation of Euro Area Balance of Payments (this is an update of a paper that was discussed by the Committee at its meeting in 2000)

Direct Investment/ Reinvested Earnings

• Direct Investment: Report by IMF on Updating the SIMSDI Survey of National Practices and Clarifications of Direct Investment Recommendations (BOPCOM-00/16)

External Debt

• Report on the Work Program of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics and Related Issues (BOPCOM-00/18)
• New Developments in BIS Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-00/28)
• Classification and Valuation of Domestic Loans Sold to Non-residents at a Discount in the Balance of Payments Statistics and International Investment Position (BOPCOM-00/15)

Implementation of BPM5

• Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-00/24)

International Reserves

• Data Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: An Update on the Initiative (BOPCOM-00/19)

Investment Income/Accrued Income

• Calculating the Accrual of Interest on Tradable Debt Securities (BOPCOM-00/14)
• Accrued Interest in the Euro Area Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (BOPCOM-00/30)
• Treatment of Income: Analogy Between Non-financial and Financial Assets (BOPCOM-00/41)

Merchandise Trade

• Evaluation of Foreign Trade Transactions in Illegal Drug Trafficking (BOPCOM-00/27)
• Differences in the Mirror Statistics in INTRASTAT (BOPCOM-00/36)

Portfolio Investment

• Covering Note for Documents on the Work on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-00/7)
• Report on the Task Force on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-00/8)
• Draft Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey Guide, second edition (BOPCOM-00/9)
• Report on the Working Group on Securities Databases (BOPCOM-0010A)
• Results of the Questionnaire on Securities Databases: Preliminary Draft for Comments (BOPCOM-00/10)

Repurchase Agreements (Repos)

• The Macroeconomic Statistical Treatment of Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-00/13)
• Comments on the Macroeconomic Statistical Treatment of Repo-Type Transactions and Securities Lending (BOPCOM-00/33)

Services

• Statistics of International Trade in Services: A Status Report (BOPCOM-00/17)
• Technical Group "Travel" Report (BOPCOM-00/29)
• A Household Survey for Data Collection on Travel in Germany (BOPCOM-00/38)
  
• Improving Travel in Chile's Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-00/40)

Other Issues

• Training in the Use of Balance of Payments Statistics - Staff Notes (BOPCOM-00/12)
• Towards a Sixth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual (BOPCOM-00/21)
• Estimating Monthly Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-00/26)
• Recent Work Carried Out by the ESCB Working Group on Balance of Payments and External Reserves Statistics (BOPCOM-00/34)
• Survey on the Use, Compilation and Dissemination of Macroprudential Indicators (MPIs) (BOPCOM-00/37).
• The Concept of Monthly Balance of Payments Statistics In Germany (BOPCOM-00/39)