Report on the World Current Account Discrepancy

September 15, 1987

Summary

The IMF, in cooperation with other concerned organizations, set up a working party to investigate and improve the statistical procedures being used, and to recommend compilation procedures that would make nations' balance of payments statistics more consistent with one another. In addition to detailed explanations of its findings and recommendations, the Report contains extensive statistical appendices and 109 tables.

Subject: Balance of payments, Balance of payments statistics, Credit, Economic and financial statistics, Foreign direct investment, Income, Money, National accounts, Personal income

Keywords: account discrepancy, Africa, balance of payments account, balance of payments compiler, Balance of payments statistics, BOOK, Credit, current account, debit, Eastern Europe, Foreign direct investment, fund staff, Global, Income, income flow, investment, investment income, Middle East, Personal income, transaction

Pages:
203
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9780939934904.071
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Books
Stock No:
RWCAEA0000000
ISBN:
9780939934904
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