Understanding Financial Accounts in the Balance of Payments

Discover the role of the financial account in the balance of payments, covering claims on nonresidents and assets like ...
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Chasing Shadows in China’s Balance of Payments Data

For better or for worse, I have been trying to track the evolution of the foreign currency balance sheet of China’s state banks for a very long time. Remember the use of foreign currency reserves to ...
International Monetary Fund

Balance of Payments Statistics

Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. The 2021 Annual Report1 of the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (the Committee) provides an overview of recent ...
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A Puzzle in Japan’s Balance of Payments: What Explains Strong Foreign Demand for JGBs?

Japanese investors have been big buyers of foreign bonds—and U.S. bonds in particular. The lifers, the Japanese government through the government pension fund (GPIF), the Japanese government through ...
Business Recorder

OPINION: Trends in the balance of payments

The SBP (State Bank of Pakistan) has released the figures on the external balance of payments of Pakistan for the first half of 2025-26. The objective of this article is to identify the changes in the ...