02224cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002409 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 50.00 USD 9781451955064 0252-3027 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. International Financial Statistics Supplement on Balance of Payments. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1984. 1 online resource (104 pages) International Financial Statistics <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This article discusses different aspects and tables in the seventh Supplement of Balance of Payments Statistics. A balance of payments statement can be broadly described as the record of an economy's international economic transactions, that is, of the goods and services that an economy has received from, and provided to, the rest of the world, and of changes in the economy's claims on and liabilities to the rest of the world. The report highlights that for recent years the global current account figures contain a large discrepancy that implies either that surpluses are under-recorded, or deficits are over-recorded, or some combination of the two. The inconsistencies that give rise to the recorded current account asymmetry stem mainly from deficiencies in the balance of payments statements of individual countries covered in the statistics. The growth in the discrepancy is most noticeable for the category 'other goods, services, and income'. The problem is still to be resolved, and therefore, considerable caution should be exercised when interpreting the statistics for the most recent years. Mode of access: Internet International Financial Statistics; Volume *, ; No. * or Volume *, Year Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/books/041/03736-9781451955064-en/03736-9781451955064-en-book.xml IMF e-Library