Contents  (150k PDF version of full text)
I.	Introduction
II.	Executive Summary Recent Trends in Global Balance of Payments Statistics Committee Work Program
III.	Recent Trends in Global Balance of Payments Statistics Introduction Global Current Account Capital and Financial Accounts
IV.	Work Program Undertaken by the Committee—1995 The 1997 Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey    Work of the Task Force    Role of the Committee International Banking Statistics Financial Derivatives Fifth Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual Quality Assessment Report of Work at EUROSTAT and the EMI The Balance of Payments Statistics Newsletter
V.	Future Work Program
Boxes
	1.	New Balance of Payments Presentation
	2.	BIS International Banking Statistics
Tables
	1.	Global Balances on Current Account, 1988–94
	2.	Global Balances on Capital and Financial Accounts, 1988–94
Appendices
	1.	IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics:    Composition as of December 31, 1995
	2.	Terms of Reference of the IMF Committee    on Balance of Payments Statistics
	3.	IMF Task Force on Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey: Composition as of December 31, 1995
	4.	Terms of Reference of the IMF Committee on Balance of    Payments Statistics Task Force on Coordinated    Portfolio Investment Survey