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

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Borderline Issues

• Investment Companies: What are they, and Where Should they be Classified in the International Economic Accounts? - Paper by USA (BOPCOM-03/22)
• Borderline Issues Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: Responses to BOPCOM-02/35 Exploring the Borderline Between Direct Investment and Other Types of Investment: The U.S. Treatment (BOPCOM-03/46)

Data Quality

• Introductory Note for the Discussion of "Revisions Policy for Official Statistics: A Matter of Governance" (BOPCOM-03/3)
• Revisions Policy for Official Statistics: A Matter of Governance (BOPCOM-03/3A)
• Application of the Data Quality Assessment Framework to Balance of Payments Statistics of Hong Kong, China (BOPCOM-03/4)
• Revisions in Chile's BOP Statistics (BOPCOM-03/5)
• Country Case Studies of Revision Policy and Practice - Paper by India (BOPCOM-03/6)
• Direction of Review for Revision Policy on BOP, IIP and EDS in Japan (BOPCOM-03/7)
• Data Quality: A Comparison of IMF's Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) and Eurostat's Quality Definition: Draft-Paper by IMF and Eurostat (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)

Direct Investment/Reinvested Earnings

• Recent Work by the IMF's Statistics Department in the Area of FDI Statistics (BOPCOM-03/30)

External Debt and International Banking Statistics

• New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-03/39)
• Activities of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics, 2003 (BOPCOM-03/42)

Implementation of BPM5

• Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-03/47 and attachment)

Investment Income/Accrued Income

• Differences in the Treatment in Macroeconomic Statistical Standards of Retained Earnings/Saving of Entities in Various Economic Relationships - Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-03/25)
• Dividends and Retained Earnings of Foreign Direct Investors: BoP and SNA Treatment in Canada - Paper by Canada (BOPCOM-03/26)
• Analysis of Income in UK BOP (BOPCOM-03/27)

Nonpermanent workers

• Nonpermanent Workers - Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-03/17)
• The Concept of Residence with Special Reference to the Treatment of Migrant Workers in the Balance of Payments of South Africa (BOPCOM-03/18)
• Non-Permanent Workers - Hong Kong SAR (BOPCOM-03/19)
• India's Worker Remittances: A Users' Lament About BOP Compilation (BOPCOM-03/20)

Portfolio Investment

• Report on the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (BOPCOM-03/11)
• Report of the Technical Group on Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-03/12)
• Developments in Market Clearing and Settlements Arrangements: Some Balance Sheet Recognition and Measurement Issues - Paper by UK (BOPCOM-03/13)
• Report of the Technical Group on Third Party Holdings (BOPCOM-03/14)
• Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income: Supplementary Document 3: Empirical Evidence on Aggregate versus Security-by-Security Recording - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)
• Task Force on Portfolio Investment Income: Supplementary Document 5: Treatment of Income on Collective Investment Institutions - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)

Services

• Compiling the Travel Expenditure of France's Balance of Payments and the Specific Case of the Internet Users Survey (BOPCOM-03/41)
• Collection, Dissemination, and Quality of International Trade in Services Statistics, Monitoring Progress - Paper by OECD (BOPCOM-03/43)
• Measuring the Production of Financial Corporations and OECD Task Force on the Measurement on Non-Life Insurance Production in the Context of Catastrophes - Paper by OECD (BOPCOM-03/44)
• Inter-Agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Status Report (BOPCOM-03/48)

Updating BPM5

• Plans for Preparation and Finalization of New Manual - Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-03/40)
• Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual: List of Topics for Consideration by the Direct Investment Expert Group (DITEG) (BOPCOM-03/40B)
• Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual: List of Topics for Consideration by the Balance of Payments Technical Expert Group (BOPTEG) (BOPCOM-03/40C)
• Revision of the Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual: List of Topics for Consideration by the Currency Union Technical Expert Group (CUTEG) (BOPCOM-03/40D)
• The Forthcoming Review of International Statistical Standards: Towards Updating BPM5 - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting)

Uses of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics

• Policy Applications of Balance of Payments and IIP Statistics—Paper by Uganda (BOPCOM-03/37)

Other Issues

• Employee Stock Options in Balance of Payments Statistics - Paper by Japan (BOPCOM-03/21)
• The Statistical Treatment of Unit Trusts - Paper by South Africa (BOPCOM-03/23)
• Re-engineering the UK National Accounts System (BOPCOM-03/31)
• The Relationship Between International Accounting Standards and International Statistical Standards: Background Information on Work Within the IMF's Statistics Department (BOPCOM-03/32)
• Report on Eurostat Activities: Balance of Payments Unit (BOPCOM-03/50)
• International Accounting Standards (IAS) and EU statistics - Paper by Eurostat (BOPCOM-03/51)
• Impact of International Accounting Standards on External Statistics - Paper by the ECB (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting)
• Security Measures for the BOJ Open Network for Electronic Procedures on the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law—Paper by Japan (This is an update of a paper that was presented to the Committee at its 2003 meeting.)