Abbreviations

Benchmark

OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment

BOP Committee

IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics

BPM5

IMF Balance of Payments Manual, fifth edition

COPC

Current Operating Performance Concept

EU

European Union

Eurostat

Statistical Office of the European Communities

FCS

Fully Consolidated System

FDI

Foreign direct investment

IIP

International investment position

IMF

International Monetary Fund

ITRS

International transactions reporting system

MFI

Monetary financial institution

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

SDDS

Special Data Dissemination Standard

SIMSDI

Survey of Implementation of Methodological Standards for Direct Investment

SNA93

System of National Accounts 1993

SPE

Special purpose entity

WPFS

Working Party on Financial Statistics (OECD)