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Annual Report 2002

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List of Abbreviations
 
I. Introduction
 
II. Executive Summary
Recent Trends in Global Balance of Payments
   Statistics
Data Quality Assessment
Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
Updating the Fifth Edition of the
   Balance of Payments Manual
Other Methodological Work
 
III. Recent Trends in Global Balance of Payments
   Statistics

Introduction
Global Current Account
Global Capital and Financial Accounts
 
IV.      Work Program Undertaken By The Committee
   in 2002

Data Quality Assessment Framework
The Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
Issues Related to the Coordinated Portfolio
   Investment Survey
External Debt and International Banking
   Statistics
Direct Investment
Harmonizing of Reporting
Income
Uses of Balance of Payments and International
   Investment Position Statistics
Implementation of BPM5
Reporting Under BPM5
Updating BPM5
Foreign Exchange Exposure
 
V. Future Work Program
 
VI. 2003 Meeting
 
Figures
  1.   Impact of Revisions on Global Current
   Account Imbalance 1997 - 2000
  2.   Impact of Revisions on Global Financial
   Account Imbalance 1997 - 2000
  3.   Current Account Imbalances, 1995 - 2001
  4.   Financial Account Imbalances, 1995 - 2001
 
Tables
  1.   Global Imbalances on Current Account,
   1995 - 2001
  2.   Global Imbalances on Capital and Financial
   Accounts, 1995 - 2001
  3.   Geographic Breakdown of Total Portfolio
   Investment: Top Ten Economies by Holders
   and Issuers, at Year End-2001
 
Boxes
  1.   The CPIS, SEFER, and SSIO
  2.   Highlights of the 2001 SIMSDI Results
  3.   Summary Proposed Timetable for Updating BPM5
 
Appendices
  1.   IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics:
   Composition as of December 31, 2002
  2.   Terms of Reference of the IMF Committee on
   Balance of Payments Statistics
  3.   Medium-term Work Program of the IMF
   Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics:
   End-December 2002