Final Report of the Working Party on the Statistical Discrepancy in World Current Account Balances (Report on the World Current Account Discrepancy)
Publisher: Intl Monetary Fund
Published: October 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780939934904
Subjects: International finance; Business/Economics; Statistical methods; Balance Of Payments
First sentence: In the period after 1979, the available statistics on the world current account began to show a large negative discrepancy, indicating that either the deficits of some countries and areas were being overstated, or that surpluses were being understated.