External Debt Statistics. Guide for Compilers and Users

309 p.

20x27cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index

ForewordPreface -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Overview -- PART I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- 2 The Measurement of External Debt: Definition and Core Accounting Principles -- 3 Identification of Institutional Sectors and Financial Instruments -- 4 Presentation of the Gross External Debt Position -- 5 Public and Publicly Guaranteed External Debt -- 6 Further External Debt Accounting Principles -- 7 Further Presentation Tables of External Debt -- Introduction -- External Debt by Short-Term Remaining Maturity -- Debt-Service Payment Schedule -- Foreign Currency and Domestic Currency External Debt -- Interest Rates and External Debt -- External Debt by Creditor Sector -- Net External Debt Position -- Reconciliation of External Debt Positions and Flows -- Traded Debt Instruments -- Cross-Border Trade-Related Credit -- 8 Debt Reorganization -- 9 Contingent Liabilities -- PART II: COMPILATION -- PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE -- 10 Overview of Data Compilation -- -Introduction -- Coordination Among Official Agencies -- Resources -- Legal Backing for Data Collection -- Collection Techniques at Different Stages of Liberalization -- Dissemination of External Debt Statistics -- 11 Government and Public Sector Debt Statistics -- Introduction -- How Should Data Be Collected and Compiled by the Debt Office? -- Basic Details and Terms of the Borrowing -- How Should Information Be Stored? -- How Can the Debt Office Validate Data? -- Appendix: Functions of the Government Debt Office -- 12 Banks and Other Sectors' External Debt Statistics -- 13 Traded Securities -- Introduction -- General Observations -- Key Considerations -- Nonresident Investment in Domestically Issued Securities: Potential Respondents -- Issues of Securities by Residents in Foreign Markets -- Information on Securities Involved in Reverse Security Transactions -- Possible Mismeasurement -- Periodic Position Surveys -- Counterpart Information -- 14 Country Experience -- Introduction -- Australia -- Austria -- Canada -- Chile -- India -- Israel -- Mexico -- New Zealand -- Philippines -- Turkey -- Uganda -- PART III: USE OF EXTERNAL DEBT STATISTICS -- 15 Debt Sustainability: Medium-Term Scenarios and Debt Ratios -- 16 External Debt Analysis: Further Considerations -- -Introduction -- Composition of External Debt -- The Role of Income -- The Role of Assets -- Relevance of Financial Derivatives and Repurchase Agreements (Repos) -- Information on the Creditor -- PART IV: WORK OF INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES -- 17 External Debt Statistics from International Agencies -- Introduction -- Bank for International Settlements-International Monetary Fund -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- World Bank -- Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics on External Debt -- 18 External Debt Monitoring Systems -- Introduction -- Commonwealth Secretariat's Debt Recording and Management System (CS-DRMS) -- UNCTAD's Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS) -- 19 Provision of Technical Assistance in External Debt Statistics -- -Introduction -- Commonwealth Secretariat -- European Central Bank -- International Monetary Fund -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development -- World Bank -- Appendices -- -I. Specific Financial Instruments and Transactions: Classifications -- Part 1. Financial Instruments: Description and Classificationin the Gross External Debt Position -- Part 2. Classification of Specific Transactions -- II. Reverse Security Transactions -- III. Glossary of External Debt Terms -- IV. Relationship Between the National Accounts and the International Investment Position (IIP) -- V. Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and DebtSustainability Analysis

10.1787/9789264065161-en [DOI]

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