The IMF should take a mulligan on the 2024 External Sector Report. The imbalance in China’s goods trade is expanding, not receding. It is too big for the IMF to ignore.

Data on external debt (in conjunction with the Bank for International Settlements, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Bank). Data on portfolio investment from ...

The iPhone is priced correctly in China’s customs trade data. A seemingly banal observation that leads to big questions about China’s post 2022 balance of payments methodology.

• Balance of Payments Statistics (BOP/IIP). Contains balance of payments and international investment position (IIP) data of individual countries, jurisdictions, and other reporting entities, and ...

IMF data tapes are available for IBM mainframe systems (EBCDIC character coding) in both a "packed" and an "unpacked" format. PROC DATASOURCE supports only the "packed" format at this time. ... and ...

Of course, even with a related UN update to national accounts data also now ready, balance of payments statistics don’t change overnight, and the IMF says that “countries are encouraged to ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next tranche of ...

BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said the country posted a BOP surplus of $1.04 billion in August, up sharply from the $642 million surplus in July.

Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next tranche of IMF funding, the fund's ...