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Borderline Issues

• Exploring the Borderline Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: The U.S. Treatment (BOPCOM-02/35)

Data Quality

• Revision Policy and Practice: A First Overview of Country Practices (BOPCOM-02/4)
• Revisions in Australia's Balance of Payments (BOP) Statistics (BOPCOM-02/6)
• Revisions in the New Zealand Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-02/8)
• UK Balance of Payments and Trade Statistics Quality Review (BOPCOM-02/9)
• Quality of the BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-02/76)

Direct Investment/Reinvested Earnings

• Valuing the Direct Investment Position in U.S. Economic Accounts (BOPCOM-02/29)
• The Estimate of Reinvested Earnings (BOPCOM-02/31)
• Mandate of the Joint ECB/Commission (Eurostat) Task Force on Foreign Direct Investment (TF-FDI) (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
• The Practical Implementation of the Directional Principle in Foreign Direct Investment: Some Countries' Experience and the Belgian Case (BOPCOM-02/33)
• Treatment of Indirect FDI Relationships (BOPCOM-02/34)
• Classification of Financial Derivatives in Direct Investment: Letter Sent to IMF's Balance of Payments Correspondents Promulgating the Final Decision of the Committee (BOPCOM-02/77)

External Debt and International Banking Statistics

• Activities of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-02/70)
• New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
• Summary of Discussions at the Workshop on Short-term External Debt, Basel, 16-17 April 2002 (BOPCOM-02/72)

Implementation of BPM5

• Chile's Experience in Implementing BPM5 (BOPCOM-02/54)
• Implementation of BPM5 in Compiling Balance of Payments Statistics of Hong Kong, China (BOPCOM-02/55)
• Challenges and Staff Training in Implementing BPM5: The Case of GCC (BOPCOM-02/56)
• A New Scheme for the Electronic Reporting of BOP Statistics (BOPCOM-02/57)
• Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-02/58 and attachment)

Investment Income/Accrued Income

• Income of Mutual Funds (BOPCOM-02/41)
• Varying Treatments of Income of Collective Investment Schemes in the 1993 System of National Accounts, the Balance of Payments, Fifth Edition, and the European System of Accounts, 1995 (BOPCOM-02/42)
• Accrual Accounting of Interest Electronic Discussion Group: Report of the Moderator (BOPCOM-02/44)
• Accrual Recording of Interest: Is there a Case for Revising the 1993 SNA? (BOPCOM-02/44-A)
• Income from Bonds: The 1993 SNA Approach (BOPCOM-02/45)
• Mandate of the ECB Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
• Letter to UNSD on Accrued Interest (BOPCOM-02/47)

Portfolio Investment

• Report on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-02/10)
• Statistics on Offshore Financial Centers (BOPCOM-02/11)
• Report on Third Party Reporting (BOPCOM-02/12)
• The European System of Central Banks' Centralised Securities Database (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)
• Task Force on Portfolio Investment Collection Systems Final Report (This is an update of the report presented to the Committee at its 2002 meeting.)

Regional/Bilateral Issues

• Evolution of the Intra-EU asymmetries in the Current Account (BOPCOM-02/18)
• Bilateral Asymmetries Between EU and US: Basic Features (BOPCOM-02/19)

Services

• Global Discrepancies in the Transportation Account (BOPCOM-02/20 Revised)
• Overview of the Implementation of Surveys on Tourism in France (BOPCOM-02/22)
• Bilateral Comparisons of Travel Transactions (BOPCOM-02/23)
• Research on International Experiences in Measuring Visitor Expenditure Associated with Inbound Tourism (BOPCOM-02/38)
• FATS: Overview of Work in Progress in France (BOPCOM-02/39)
• Inter-Agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Status Report (BOPCOM-02/40)
• Insurance Services-International Discrepancies (BOPCOM-02/65)
• Insurance-Conceptual Issues (BOPCOM-02/66)
• Insurance-Treatment of Catastrophes (BOPCOM-02/67)

Updating BPM5

• Updating BPM5: Compendium of Issues (BOPCOM-02/25)
• Updating BPM5: A Proposed Timetable and Structure (BOPCOM-02/26)

Uses of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics

• Use of Balance of Payments Statistics in Foreign Exchange Policy Formulation: Russia's Experience (BOPCOM-02/49)
• Use of Balance of Payments Statistics: Case of Saudi Arabia (BOPCOM-02/50)
• The Use of Balance of Payments Statistics in the Determination of Monetary and Fiscal Policy (BOPCOM-02/51)
• Use of International Investment Position Statistics in UK (BOPCOM-02/52)
• Foreign Reserve Adequacy: Case of Russia (BOPCOM-02/53)
• The International Investment Position: Measurement Aspects and Usefulness for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Issues (BOPCOM-02/74)

Other Issues

• Impact of Revisions on the Global Balance of Payments Discrepancies (BOPCOM-02/17)
• Harmonised Balance of Payments Reporting Rules for Multinationals (BOPCOM-02/21)
• Residence (BOPCOM-02/59)
• Eurostat Activities on International Accounting Standards: Special Focus on Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-02/62)
• Appendix II of the Preliminary Draft of the Compilation Guide to Financial Soundness Indicators (the Guide) (BOPCOM-02/63)
• Nonperforming Loans (BOPCOM-02/68)
• International Standards for Impairment and Provisions and their Implications for Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) (BOPCOM-02/68-A)
• Employee Stock Options in Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-02/69)
• Measuring Australia's Foreign Currency Exposure (BOPCOM-02/73)