Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (Sixth Ed.)

The release of the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) is the culmination of several years of work by the IMF Statistics Department and the IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics (the Committee) in collaboration with compilers and other interested parties worldwide. It updates the fifth edition published in 1993, providing guidance to IMF member countries
on the compilation of balance of payments and international investment position data. When the Committee decided in 2001 to initiate an update of the manual, it considered that, while the overall framework of the fifth edition (BPM5) remained adequate, it needed to incorporate the numerous elaborations, clarifications, and improvements and updates in methodology that had been identified since 1993, and to strengthen the theoretical foundations and linkages to other macroeconomic statistics.