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      "content": "- Publication date: June 25, 2003\n- Core purpose: Provides guidance on the concepts, definitions, and classifications of gross external debt of the public and private sectors, and on the sources, compilation techniques, and analytical uses of these data.\n- Supersedes: External Debt: Definition, Statistical Coverage, and Methodology (known as the Gray Book), 1988."
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      "heading": "Conceptual framework and standards",
      "content": "- Derives from:\n  - System of National Accounts 1993\n  - The fifth edition of the IMF’s Balance of Payments Manual(1993)\n- Coverage focus:\n  - Gross external debt of public and private sectors\n  - Concepts, definitions, classifications, sources, compilation techniques, analytical uses"
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      "content": "- Prepared by an Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics chaired by the IMF and involving representatives from:\n  - BIS\n  - Commonwealth Secretariat\n  - European Central Bank\n  - Eurostat\n  - OECD\n  - Paris Club Secretariat\n  - UNCTAD\n  - World Bank"
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      "content": "- Length: 328 pages\n- Topics emphasized:\n  - Definition and measurement of external debt\n  - Statistical coverage and methodology\n  - Sources and compilation techniques\n  - Analytical uses of external debt data\n  - Treatment of financial derivatives, loans, securities, and related instruments in external debt statistics"
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      "heading": "Subject classification and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Currencies, Economic and financial statistics, External debt, External sector statistics, Financial derivatives, Financial institutions, Loans, Money, Securities\n- Keywords: Africa, Currencies, debt, debt liability, debt position, East Africa, External sector statistics, Financial derivatives, Global, interest cost, liability, Loans, M&G, Securities, security taker, security transaction, short-term debt, Southern Africa, unit of account, West Africa"
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    "Keywords: Africa, Currencies, debt, debt liability, debt position, East Africa, External sector statistics, Financial derivatives, Global, interest cost, liability, Loans, M&G, Securities, security taker, security transaction, short-term debt, Southern Africa, unit of account, West Africa",
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