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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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Data Quality

• Towards a Revisions Policy for India's Balance of Payments (BOPCOM-04/3)

Direct Investment

• Update on Feasibility Study on Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (BOPCOM-04/4)
• 2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the IMF (BOPCOM-04/4A)
• 2003 Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment: Report by the OECD (BOPCOM-04/4B)

External Debt, IIP, and International Financial Statistics

• External Debt and IIP: Developments of Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (BOPCOM-04/42)
• New Developments in BIS International Financial Statistics (BOPCOM-04/43)

Financial Derivatives

• Recent U.S. Progress in Collecting Data on Derivatives (BOPCOM-04/9)

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)

• HIPC and Exceptional Financing in the Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPCOM-04/41)

Implementation of BPM5

• Country Practices in Reporting Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data to the Fund (BOPCOM-04/44) and attachment)

International Reserves

• Data Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Planned Regional Seminars to Review Experiences (BOPCOM-04/38)

Nonpermanent Workers and Remittances

• Statistics on Remittances (BOPCOM-04/39)
• Working Abroad: the Benefits from Nationals Working in Other Economies (BOPCOM-04/40)

Portfolio Investment

• 2001 and 2002 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey results: (BOPCOM-04/5)
• Report of the Technical Group on Third Party Holdings (BOPCOM-04/6)
• Report of the Technical Group on Reverse Transactions (BOPCOM-04/7)
• Central Clearing Houses: Paper by the United Kingdom (BOPCOM-04/8)

Reporting by Multinational Corporations

• Harmonization of Balance of Payments Reporting by Multinationals (BOPCOM-04/45)
• Harmonization of Balance of Payments Reporting by Multinationals: Summary of the Meeting held in Frankfurt on September 15, 2004 (BOPCOM-04/45A)

Reporting Systems and Processing

• The Evolution of the French Reporting System Since the Inception of the EMU (BOPCOM-04/10)
• Development of Japan's Internet Reporting System (BOPCOM-04/11)
• ABS Business Statistics Reengineering and the Impact on Australia's Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics: Prepared by Mr. Zia Abbasi (BOPCOM-04/12)

Services

• International Trade in Services Statistics -Monitoring Progress on Implementation of the Manual and Assessing Data Quality (BOPCOM-04/13)
• Revision of the CPC and relationships to EBOPS: Report by the United Nations (BOPCOM-04/14B)

Updating BPM5 and Other Related Macroeconomic Statistical Manuals

• Some Major Decisions Taken by the Committee Regarding the Revision of BPM5
• Progress Report of the Technical Sub-Group on the Movement of Natural Persons (BOPCOM-04/14)
• Background Document on Work of the Technical Sub-Group on Movement of Natural Persons: Statistical Framework for the Measurement of Movement of Natural Persons - A Proposal (BOPCOM-04/14A)
• Overview of the Work on the Update of BPM5 (BOPCOM-04/15)
• Update of the 1993 SNA: Progress Report - July 2004: Report by the ISWGNA (BOPCOM-04/16)
• Draft Summary Record of the Meeting of the Workshop on International Investment Statistics (BOPCOM-04/16A)
• Comments on the Annotated Outline: Paper by IMF (BOPCOM-04/17)
• Comments on the Annotated Outline: Paper by OECD (BOPCOM-04/17A)
• Activation of Guarantees (BOPCOM-04/18)
• Application of Accrual Principles to Debt Arrears (BOPCOM-04/19)
• Valuation of Loans (BOPCOM-04/19A) and attachment
• Criteria for Identification of Branches (BOPCOM-04/20)
• Multiterritory Enterprises (BOPCOM-04/21)
• Institutional Sector Classification (BOPCOM-04/22)
• Residence of Households (BOPCOM-04/23)
• Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and Holding Companies (BOPCOM-04/24)
• Reinvested Earnings (BOPCOM-04/25)
• Interest on Debt Securities (BOPCOM-04/26)
• Goods for Processing (BOPCOM-04/27)
• Re-Exports and Goods in Transit (BOPCOM-04/28)
• Classification of Services (BOPCOM-04/29)
• Valuation of Direct Investment Equity: DITEG Issue #1A (BOPCOM-04/30)
• Valuation of Direct Investment Equity: Branches (BOPCOM-04/30A)
• Direct Investment: 10 Percent Threshold (BOPCOM-04/31)
• Indirect FDI Relationships and Alternatives to the Fully Consolidated System (BOPCOM-04/32)
• Bringing Together all Direct Investment-Related Issues (BOPCOM-04/33)
• Currency Union Technical Expert Group: Summary Paper (BOPCOM-04/34)
• Headings and Signs (BOPCOM-04/35)
• Adoption of Concept of Change of Economic Ownership (BOPCOM-04/36)
• Treatment of Insurance Claims Incurred as Current or Capital Transfers (BOPCOM-04/37)