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a . Balance of Payments - National Accounts
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| IMF |
Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual Sixth Edition (BPM6) |
The sixth edition of the Manual, which addresses the many important developments that have occurred in the international economy since the fifth edition was released. The sixth edition builds on the growing interest in examining vulnerabilities using balance sheet data, as reflected in the addition of international investment position to the title, and extensive elaboration of balance sheet compon |
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| IMF |
Development of International Investment Position Statistics |
This Manual is meant to assist countries to compile these statistics. It describes the data on IIPs that are currently available to STA, highlights some of the difficulties that countries face in undertaking new IIP compilations. It also describes some of the tools provided by STA and its inter-agency partners that facilitate the compilation of IIP statistics, reviews several initiatives to develo |
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| IMF |
Development of International Investment Position Statistics: A Supplement |
This supplement provides an update to the Executive Board paper Development of International Investment Position Statistics (SM/02/263, 8/15/02) concerning the number of countries disseminating International Investment Position (IIP) data under the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). |
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| IMF |
External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users |
The Guide provides a comprehensive conceptual framework, derived from the 1993 SNA and BPM5, for the measurement of gross external debt of the public and private sectors. External debt liabilities have the potential to create circumstances that render an economy vulnerable to solvency and liquidity problems. The Guide provides guidance on: The concepts, definitions, and classifications of external |
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| IMF |
Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 (GFSM 2001) |
This Manual represents a major step forward in the standards for compilation and presentation of fiscal statistics and has a part in the worldwide effort to improve government accounting and transparency in operations. The Manual introduces accrual accounting, balance sheets, and complete coverage of government economic and financial activities. It is focused, however, on definitions, classificati |
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| IMF |
International Investment Position - A Guide to Data Sources |
The primary audience for this guide is those countries not currently producing an IIP statement as well as those producing partial IIP statements. The major focus of the guide is to give practical advice on existing data sources that could readily be used to build an IIP statement within a relatively short time. This guide aims to give practical guidance on IIP compilation to those countries that |
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| IMF |
International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity Guidelines For A Data Template |
This book sets forth the underlying framework for the data template on international reserves and foreign currency liquidity and provides operational guidelines for its use. The template is innovative in that it integrates data on balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet international financial activities of country authorities and supplementary information. It aims to provide a comprehensive account o |
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| IMF |
SDDS- Special Data Dissemination Standard |
The Special Data Dissemination Standard provides guidance on the observance of the Standard's various requirements. It also describes the concepts and methods to be used in the compilation and dissemination of the "data template on international reserves and foreign currency liquidity" and those on external debt. |
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| OECD |
A System of Health Accounts |
This manual of A System of Health Accounts (SHA) provides a set of comprehensive, consistent and flexible accounts. It establishes a conceptual basis of statistical reporting rules and proposes a newly developed International Classification for Health Accounts (ICHA) which covers three dimensions: health care by functions of care; providers of health care services; and sources of funding. |
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| OECD |
Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment 2008 - Fourth Edition |
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a key element in this rapidly evolving international economic integration, also referred to as globalization. The OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment sets the world standard for Foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics. It provides a single point of reference for statisticians and users on all aspect of FDI statistics, while remaining compati |
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| OECD |
Handbook on Economic Globalization Indicators (OLIS) |
The Handbook recalls the main concepts and definitions already adopted by the aforementioned manuals, putting them within the framework of globalization and showing the existing links between these manuals. The Handbook goes further by developing in more detail the concepts linked to the activity of multinational firms and proposing recommendations that can be used to develop harmonized statistics |
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| OECD |
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services-2002 |
The aim of the Manual is to provide a coherent conceptual framework within which countries can structure the statistics they collect and disseminate on international services trade. It recommends a number of core and additional data items to be implemented over time, and in so doing recognizes the constraints under which statistical compilers operate and the need not to burden data providers undul |
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| UNSD |
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 (MSITS 2010) |
The Manual sets out an internationally agreed framework for the compilation and reporting of statistics of international trade in services in a broad sense. It addresses the growing needs, including those of international trade negotiations and agreements, for more detailed, more comparable and more comprehensive statistics on this type of trade in its various forms. The draft manual differs from |
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| UNSD |
Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System of National Accounts |
The Handbook recommends statistical standards and guidelines for the development of data on nonprofit institutions (NPIs) within the System of National Accounts, 1993 (1993 SNA). The objective of developing NPI data is to improve and make available data on a sector that is growing in importance and that is often ignored or little developed as part of the economy-wide compilation of data on nationa |
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| UNSD |
International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and Definitions 2010 (IMTS 2010) |
The international merchandise trade statistics (IMTS) is a specialized multipurpose domain of official statistics concerned with the provision of data on the movements of goods between countries and area.IMTSS is responsible for the development and maintenance of the IMTS methodology, including IMTS concepts and definitions (IMTS, Rev. 2) and the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). |
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| UNSD |
National Accounts: A Practical Introduction |
National Accounts: A Practical Introduction has been developed to assist countries in the implementation of the System of National Accounts, 1993. Its general objective is to provide an introduction to some basic concepts and structures of the System of National Accounts (SNA) to economists and policy makers as well as other newcomers to the field of national accounting. The handbook also provides |
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| UNSD |
System of National Accounts, 1993 |
The System of National Accounts 1993 is a conceptual framework that sets the international statistical standard for the measurement of the market economy. Being the most comprehensive macroeconomic standard, it also serves also as the main reference point for statistical standards of related statistics such as the balance of payments, financial and government finance statistics. |
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| UNSD |
System of National Accounts, 2008 |
The 2008 SNA presents the accounting rules, the accounts and tables, and their integration, various aspects of the accounts, provide details about their presentation and describe some possible extensions to improve the usefulness of the accounts for a wide range of purposes. The new features fall into five main groups: assets; the financial sector; globalization and related issues; the general gov |
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| WHO |
Guide to producing national health accounts |
National health accounts (NHA) depict the current use of resources in the health system. The goal of this Guide to producing national health accounts is to provide the conceptual and practical information needed to set up and implement national health accounts (NHA) in a country. The Guide reflects developments in international standards and best practice experience gained from real-world efforts |
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| WHO |
International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Compilers Manual |
The primary purpose of the Manual is to assist United Nations Member States in the implementation of the methodological guidelines. The Manual clarifies a number of basic concepts and identifies compilation practices that promote implementation of IMTS, Rev.2. It also addresses several institutional and administrative issues related to the compilation of trade statistics. The Manual takes into |
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