Guide supersedes the previous international guidance on external debt statistics available in External Debt: Definition … undertaken by an Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics, chaired by the IMF and involving representatives from the BIS …

The IMF has released the 2013 External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide), which contains … updated global standards for the compilation, reporting, and analytical use of external debt statistics. The 2013 EDS Guide … was prepared under the responsibility of the nine organizations in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS …

This paper examines the linkages between key macroeconomic statistics: external debt, balance of payments, government … finance, and monetary statistics, which enable analysts and policy makers to monitor economic developments. The paper reviews … compilers of related statistics, that may help compilers to achieve greater consistency between statistics concerned and thereby …