Twentieth Meeting of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, Washington DC, USA, OCtober 29-November 1,2007

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Twentieth Meeting of the
IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics
Washington D.C, USA, October 29-November 1, 2007

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Summary of the Outcomes of the Committee’s Discussion (BOPCOM-07/26)

Direct investment

Progress on the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) (BOPCOM-07/03)
Update on the benchmark definition of direct investment (BD4) (BOPCOM-07/04) and (BOPCOM-07/4(b))
World Investment Report 2007: Report by UNCTAD (BOPCOM-07/05)

Remittances

Luxembourg Group: Progress Report by IMF (BOPCOM-07/24)
Summary results of Eurostat ad-hoc Survey on Remittances (BOPCOM-07/24(b))

Portfolio and Banking Statistics

Financial globalization: Implications for data needs (BOPCOM-07/07)
Sovereign wealth funds (BOPCOM-07/06)
Forthcoming statistics on the assets and liabilities of Euro area investment funds, including hedge funds (BOPCOM-07/09)
International financial statistics: Report by the BIS (BOPCOM-07/10)
Progress report on CPIS (BOPCOM-07/11)
Activities of the Inter-agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS) (BOPCOM-07/12)

Securities databases

Update of ECB Centralized Securities Database (CSDB) (BOPCOM-07/25(b))
Reconvened Working Group on Securities Databases (BOPCOM-07/25)

Comments from worldwide consultation

Consideration of comments on the Draft BPM6 (BOPCOM-07/13)
Additional comments from WIIS (BOPCOM-07/13(b))

Update on work of Reserve Assets Technical Expert Group (RESTEG)

RESTEG Summary Report (BOPCOM-07/15)

SNA update

Progress report (BOPCOM-07/16)
Summary of outcome of discussions related to the update of the 1993 SNA (BOPCOM-07/17)

Implementation of BPM6

Strategy going forward (BOPCOM-07/14)

Services statistics

Report on the meeting of the Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services: report by OECD (BOPCOM-07/18)
Bilateral trade in services: report by the UK and US (BOPCOM-07/19)

Goods for processing and merchanting

Paper from Hong Kong SAR (BOPCOM-07/20)

2007 Surveillance Decision

Data needs in the area of IIP and Balance of Payments arising from the 2007 Decision on bilateral surveillance (BOPCOM-07/23)

International Investment Position Statistics

Progress made and plans for further development (BOPCOM-07/22)

Reporting external sector data

Reporting external sector data to international agencies (BOPCOM-07/21)
Long-term research agenda (BOPCOM-07/08)