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BALANCE INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS [30 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • National and International Economics
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Entries in a nation's balance of payments account showing financial flows related to international direct investment, investment in government and private securities, international bank transactions, and changes in official gold holdings and foreign exchange reserves.

CONT

The capital account records the values of the non-financial assets that are acquired, or disposed of, by resident institutional units by engaging in transactions, and shows the change in net worth due to saving and capital transfers or internal bookkeeping transactions linked to production (changes in inventories and consumption of fixed capital).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Compte statistique de la balance des paiements récapitulant les flux financiers liés aux investissements étrangers directs, les investissements dans les titres publics et privés, les transactions bancaires internationales et les mouvements dans les stocks publics d'or et les réserves de devises.

CONT

Le solde du compte capital constitue la différence entre les investissements nationaux à l'étranger et les investissements étrangers au pays.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Cuenta de la balanza de pagos que refleja los movimientos de capitales correspondientes a las inversiones directas en el extranjero, las inversiones en títulos públicos y privados, las operaciones bancarias internacionales y las variaciones de las reservas públicas en oro y divisas.

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Record 2 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • National and International Economics
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Collection of institutions, instruments and methods of payment that make up international liquidity and treasury. The monetary system also includes the economic principles and philocophies that govern the fixing of exchange rates and the solving of imbalances in the balance of payments.

OBS

international monetary system: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Ensemble des institutions, conventions et règles de comportement présidant aux règlements des échanges internationaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Conjunto de instituciones y reglas en torno al FMI, que mantienen una malla de relaciones entre los países, para hacer posible el desarrollo fluido de los pagos internacionales.

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Record 3 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Foreign Trade
  • Customs and Excise
DEF

A statistical statement of a country’s credit and debit transactions with other countries and international institutions for a given period of time.

PHR

Balance of payments pressure, balance of payments viability; weak balance of payments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Douanes et accise
DEF

Document statistique qui fait état, pour une période déterminée, des opérations de crédit et de débit d'un pays avec le reste du monde.

PHR

Pressions sur la balance des paiements, équilibre de la balance des paiements, faible balance des paiements.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Comercio exterior
  • Aduana e impuestos internos
DEF

Documento contable sistemático en el cual se presentan todas las operaciones, pagos y financiamientos que ha realizado durante un período dado un país con el resto del mundo.

PHR

presiones sobre la balanza de pagos, equilibrio de la balanza de pagos; balanza de pagos débil.

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Record 4 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

A total mesure of money supply.

CONT

Financial indicators that may help policy-makers differentiate between inflows caused by a shift in the money demand function and those driven by exogenous factors include asset prices, monetary and credit aggregates, balance of payments data, and key international variables, such as interest rates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
CONT

Entre los indicadores financieros que pueden ayudar a los responsables de las políticas a diferenciar las corrientes causadas por cambios en la función de demanda de dinero de las generadas por factores exógenos están los siguientes: precios de los activos, agregados monetarios y crediticios, datos sobre la balanza de pagos y variables internacionales clave, como tasas de interés.

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Record 5 2015-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

Growing international trade, and freer trade in a world more susceptible to political and economic irregularities, require larger liquid reserves for countries to hold as protection against swings in their balance of payments...

OBS

liquid reserve; liquidity reserve: terms usually used in the plural.

OBS

for "liquidity reserve": America’s gold drain long covered up ... (c) long-run liquidity shortage of reserves in a world where foreign trade grows at 7 or 8 per cent per year ...

Key term(s)
  • liquidity reserves
  • liquid reserves

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
Key term(s)
  • réserve de liquidités

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
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Record 6 2015-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

Currency with an international foreign exchange rate that is higher than expected, in light of macroeconomic parameters(inflation, balance of payments, level of reserves, interest rates, etc.).

CONT

So long as our dollar costs tended to be high all around, the American currency could be called an "overvalued currency". A country with an overvalued currency tends to incur international deficits, to be undersold in most goods, to have capital outflow, and to be threatened with high unemployment and excess capacity.

OBS

overvalued currency: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
DEF

Devise dont le taux de change sur les marchés internationaux de devises est supérieur à celui dont on pourrait s'attendre étant donné les paramètres macro-économiques du pays en question (taux d'inflation relatif, solde de la balance des paiements, niveau des réserves, taux réels d'intérêts, etc.).

OBS

monnaie surévaluée : terme et définition extraits du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduits avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
DEF

Divisa cuyo tipo de cambio en los mercados internacionales de divisas es superior al que se podría esperar dados los parámetros macroeconómicos del país en cuestión (tase de inflación relativa, saldo de la balanza de pagos, nivel de reservas, tipos reales de interés, etc.).

OBS

moneda sobrevalorada: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 7 2010-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Social Problems
OBS

On November 22, 1999, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] transformed its Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility(ESAF) into the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility(PRGF) and expanded the facility's objectives to support programs that substantially strengthen balance of payments positions and make them sustainable, while fostering durable growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Problèmes sociaux
OBS

Le 22 novembre 1999, le FMI [Fonds monétaire international] a transformé sa Facilité d'ajustement structurel renforcée (FASR) en Facilité pour la réduction de la pauvreté et la croissance (FRPC) et a étoffé les objectifs de la facilité pour appuyer des programmes qui renforcent substantiellement les positions de balance des paiements et les rendent viables, tout en favorisant une croissance durable.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
DEF

The International Monetary Fund(IMF) is an international organization, formed at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, to maintain monetary stability in the world community. The IMF works closely with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development(the World Bank), but directs its attention toward payment of external debts owed by countries with balance of payments deficits, rather than project financing. The IMF makes loans in the form of drawings(special drawing rights, SDRs) by member countries.

OBS

Title reproduced from the document "United Nations and Related Bodies, Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Networks, Systems, Foundations and Similar Institutions", with the authorization of UNESCO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Coopération et développement économiques
DEF

Le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) est un organisme fondé dans le but de promouvoir la coopération monétaire internationale, de faciliter l'expansion harmonieuse du commerce international et de promouvoir la stabilité des changes.

OBS

Appellation tirée du document «United Nations and Related Bodies, Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Networks, Systems, Foundations and Similar Institutions», avec l'autorisation de l'UNESCO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
DEF

Una de las instituciones creadas en Bretton Woods en 1944. Es el organismo de las Naciones Unidas para la cooperación monetaria y el comercio internacional. Se basó en un sistema de patrón de cambios-oro, en el cual todas las monedas de los socios debían ser convertibles al dólar, siéndolo éste a su vez al oro a un precio fijo. Entre 1948 y 1973 el FMI aseguró la estabilidad de los tipos de cambio, hasta que los cambios flotantes se generalizaron tras la segunda devaluación del dólar (1973). El FMI, que tiene su sede en Washington, facilita recursos en forma de créditos automáticos (girando cada país sobre su propia cuota), créditos stand-by, etc., a sus socios, para hacer frente a sus dificultades monetarias. Desde 1968 emite los derechos especiales de giro.

OBS

Extraido de "United Nations and Related Bodies, Specialized Agencies of the United Nations System, Intergovernmental Organizations, International Non-Governmental Organizations, Networks, Systems, Foundations and Similar Institutions", con la autorización UNESCO.

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Record 9 2007-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Foreign Trade
  • Taxation
CONT

The U. S. Department of Commerce keep records and makes official estimates of all international transactions during a year... They all go to make up the "balance of international payments"...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

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Record 10 2007-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
OBS

This biannual publication provides a set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD Member countries and nine non-member economies(Argentina, China, Israel, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Chinese Taipei) in the field of science and technology. These data include final or provisional results as well as forecasts established by government authorities. The indicators cover the resources devoted to research and development, patent families, technology balance of payments and international trade in highly R&D-intensive industries. Also presented are the underlying economic series used to calculate these indicators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
OBS

Cette publication semestrielle présente un jeu d'indicateurs reflétant le niveau et la structure des efforts menés par les pays de l'OCDE et par neuf économies non-membres (Afrique du Sud, Argentine, Chine, Fédération de Russie, Israël, Roumanie, Singapour, Slovénie, Tapei chinois) dans les domaines de la science et de la technologie. Il s'agit de résultats définitifs ou provisoires, et de prévisions établies par le gouvernement. Les indicateurs couvrent plus particulièrement les ressources consacrées aux activités de recherche-développement, les familles de brevets, la balance des paiements technologiques et le commerce international dans les industries à haute densité de R-D. Cet ouvrage intègre également quelques statistiques économiques de base utilisées pour le calcul des indicateurs.

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

This is a listing of balance of payments components in a conventional order as standardized by the Fund [International Monetary Fund].

Key term(s)
  • analytic presentation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Il s'agit d'une liste des composantes de la balance des paiements qui sont présentées selon la classification standard adoptée par le Fonds [monétaire international].

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • Statistical Surveys
OBS

Statistics Canada quarterly publication 67-001.

Key term(s)
  • Canadian Balance of International Payments

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
OBS

Publication trimestrielle 67-001 de Statistique Canada.

Key term(s)
  • Balance canadienne des paiements internationaux

Spanish

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Record 13 2005-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Reports
  • Statistical Surveys
OBS

A survey of Statistics Canada, number 2202.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de rapports
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
OBS

Une enquête de Statistique Canada, numéro 2202.

Spanish

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Record 14 2005-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Institutions
CONT

The IMF [International Monetary Fund] is a cooperative financial institution that provides assistance to member countries that encounter balance of payments problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Institutions financières

Spanish

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Record 15 2002-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Finance
  • National Accounting
OBS

Balance of Payments, Manual, 5th edition, issued by the International Monetary Fund.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Finances
  • Comptabilité nationale
OBS

Manuel de la balance des paiements, cinquième édition, 1993. Fonds Monétaire International.

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • National and International Economics
OBS

Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Balance of Payments Division, c2000. ISBN 0660181754.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Économie nationale et internationale
OBS

Ottawa : Statistique Canada, Division de la balance des paiements, 2000. ISBN 0660963655.

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
CONT

The more detailed data envisaged for a quarterly and annual balance of payments(and for an annual statement of the international investment position(IIP) will be compatible with the IMF's(International Monetary Fund) standard components.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Les données plus détaillées prévues pour l'établissement d'une balance des paiements trimestrielle et annuelle ainsi que pour un état annuel de la position extérieure (PE) seront harmonisées avec les composantes standard du FMI (Fond monétaire international).

Spanish

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Record 18 1998-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
OBS

Facility created by the International Monetary Fund in March 1986 to provide balance of payments assistance on concessional terms to low income developing countries. The resources will consist of assets received in the Special Disbursement Account as a result of the termination of the Trust Fund.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
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Record 19 1998-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
DEF

Facility created by the International Monetary Fund in March 1986 to provide balance of payments assistance on concessional terms to low income developing countries. The resources will consist of assets received in the Special Disbursement Account as a result of the termination of the Trust Fund.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos, unidades administrativas y comités
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
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Record 20 1998-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
DEF

Vehicles for country authorities to reach agreement with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on the broad outline of medium-term programs to overcome balance of payments problems and foster growth. In their final form they are statements by governments of their objectives and policies over a rolling three-year period with annual updates and revisions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Doctrinas, políticas y sistemas económicos
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Record 21 1997-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

Traditionally, theoretical literature on balance of payments crises stressed that weak economic fundamentals-such as excessively expansionary fiscal and monetary policies-resulted in a persistent loss of international reserves, ultimately forcing the authorities to abandon the fixed exchange rate parity. More recently, however, some economists have argued that the authorities may decide to abandon the parity for reasons other than a depletion of official international reserves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
CONT

Tradicionalmente, en la literatura teórica sobre las crisis de balanza de pagos se insistía en que cuando las variables fundamentales son poco sólidas - por ejemplo, una política fiscal y monetaria excesivamente expansionistas - se produce una pérdida persistente de reservas internacionales que obliga a las autoridades a abandonar tarde o temprano el régimen de paridad fija. Sin embargo, en estudios más recientes se sostiene que las autoridades pueden decidir abandonar esa paridad por otras razones, no sólo porque se agoten las reservas internacionales oficiales.

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Record 22 1997-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

Economic fundamentals clearly favour a more substantial narrowing of Canada-U.S. interest rate differentials.

CONT

Traditionally, theoretical literature on balance of payments crises stressed that weak economic fundamentals-such as excessively expansionary fiscal and monetary policies-resulted in a persistent loss of international reserves, ultimately forcing the authorities to abandon the fixed exchange rate parity.

Key term(s)
  • economic fundamental

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
CONT

Les facteurs économiques fondamentaux jouent manifestement en faveur d'un rapprochement plus marqué des taux d'intérêt dans les deux pays.

Key term(s)
  • facteur économique fondamental

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Presupuestación del sector público
CONT

Tradicionalmente, en la literatura teórica sobre las crisis de balanza de pagos se insistía en que cuando las variables fundamentales son poco sólidas - por ejemplo, una política fiscal y monetaria excesivamente expansionistas - se produce una pérdida persistente de reservas internacionales que obliga a las autoridades a abandonar tarde o temprano el régimen de paridad fija.

Key term(s)
  • variable fundamental
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Record 23 1997-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

Financial indicators that may help policy-makers differentiate between inflows caused by a shift in the money demand function and those driven by exogenous factors include asset prices, monetary and credit aggregates, balance of payments data, and key international variables, such as interest rates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
CONT

Divers indicateurs financiers - prix des actifs, agrégats de la monnaie et du crédit, données de balance des paiements, variables internationales clés telles que les taux d'intérêt - peuvent aider les autorités à distinguer les entrées de capitaux dues à un déplacement de la demande de monnaie de celles qui obéissent à des facteurs exogènes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
CONT

Entre los indicadores financieros que pueden ayudar a los responsables de las políticas a diferenciar las corrientes causadas por cambios en la función de demanda de dinero de las generadas por factores exógenos están los siguientes: precios de los activos, agregados monetarios y crediticios, datos sobre la balanza de pagos y variables internacionales clave, como tasas de interés.

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Record 24 1997-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Economics
CONT

Financial indicators that may help policy-makers differentiate between inflows caused by a shift in the money demand function and those driven by exogenous factors include asset prices, monetary and credit aggregates, balance of payments data, and key international variables, such as interest rates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Économique
CONT

Divers indicateurs financiers - prix des actifs, agrégats de la monnaie et du crédit, données de balance des paiements, variables internationales clés telles que les taux d'intérêt - peuvent aider les autorités à distinguer les entrées de capitaux dues à un déplacement de la demande de monnaie de celles qui obéissent à des facteurs exogènes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
  • Economía
CONT

Entre los indicadores financieros que pueden ayudar a los responsables de las políticas a diferenciar las corrientes causadas por cambios en la función de demanda de dinero de las generadas por factores exógenos están los siguientes: precios de los activos, agregados monetarios y crediticios, datos sobre la balanza de pagos y variables internacionales clave, como tasas de interés.

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Record 25 1994-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Translation (General)
CONT

The government did not even try to meet the IMF(International Monetary Fund) program conditions; major slippages occurred on the budget and the balance of payments targets in 1992.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Le gouvernement n'a même pas essayé de respecter les conditions du programme du FMI (Fonds Monétaire International); des écarts considérables ont été notés par rapport aux objectifs fixés pour 1992 tant pour le budget que pour la balance des paiements.

Spanish

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Record 26 1993-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • National Accounting
OBS

If a country has more rapid wage increases than its neighbor, and if these are not matched by compensating differentials in worker productivity gains, then it is indeed likely to find itself running into a deficit in the balance of international payments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Comptabilité nationale

Spanish

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Record 27 1991-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Foreign Trade
OBS

International Monetary Fund Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 28 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
OBS

There are many major problems ahead for our economy : inflation, slump, conservation and congestion, adequate growth, international balance of payments, and scores of others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 29 1981-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
OBS

Our balance of international payments then will slow an import trade surplus, balanced by the invisible credit item, interest, royalties, and dividends.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale

Spanish

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Record 30 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
CONT

Perhaps the most visible ways in which the Fund furthers the balance of payments adjustment process is through the provision of Fund resources to countries and through the maintenance of adequate international liquidity by means of increases in Fund quotas...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
OBS

[...] la liquidité pour faciliter les mécanismes d'ajustement des balances des paiements notamment en mettant ses ressources à la disposition des pays membres [...]

Spanish

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