Debt Stocks, Debt Flows and the Balance of Payments

December 1, 1994

Summary

This report focuses on the ways in which stock data enter into the analysis of the flow of external resources between creditor and debtor countries. It describes key terms and the various debt classification systems; outlines methodologies for reconciling differences in debt stocks and debt flows; compares and contrasts the debt and debt-related data systems of the IMF, the OECD, and the World Bank; provides two case studies on data analysis problems and examples of debt restructuring; and outlines the conclusions of the International Working Group on External Debt Statistics.

Subject: Arrears, Balance of payments statistics, Banking, Economic and financial statistics, External debt, Financial institutions, Loans, Stocks

Keywords: Africa, Arrears, Balance of payments statistics, BOOK, Central and Eastern Europe, data systems of the fund, debt, debt classification systems, debt data, debt flow, debt stock, Eastern Europe, flow data, flow reconciliation entry, Global, Loans, Stocks, world debt table

Pages:
160
Volume:
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9789264142589.071
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Series:
Books
Stock No:
DSDFEA0000000
ISBN:
9789264142589
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Notes

This report extends the discussion of stocks of external debt contained in a 1988 report by the International Working Group on External Debt Statistics. Copies of that report entitled External Debt: Definition, Statistical Coverage and Methodology may be obtained from OECD publications, 2 rue Andre-Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France.

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