BANQUE DE FRANCE FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORATE GENERAL Balance of payments Directorate

Unclassified Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs Working Papers on International Investment Southeast Asia : the Role of Foreign Direct Investment Policies in Development

Directorate-general for External Policies of the Union Directorate B Policy Department Standard Briefing towards an Eu Peacebuilding Strategy? Eu Civilian Coordination in Peacebuilding and the Effects of the Lisbon Treaty

The Lisbon Treaty (LT) has been designed to improve the coherence of the Union’s external action. Whilst peacebuilding, as HR Ashton has said in the European Parliament, is central to what the EU does externally, it is not spelled out in a clear policy statement what this means. The result is that the means that are principally available within the Union are not mainstreamed towards peacebuildi...

Directorate-general for External Policies of the Union Directorate B Policy Department Study the Role of Brics in the Developing World

The role of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) as emerging protagonists in international development cooperation is significantly and rapidly changing. Over the last decade, BRICS have increased their financial as well as technical assistance and established distinct ways and means of economic cooperation, especially through southsouth-cooperation with Low Income Countries (L...

The Impact of Monetary and Exchange Policies on the Country’s Trade balance Fluctuation with the Approach of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models

This paper uses the framework of new Keynesian school and the literature of the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model to build a general model that can be estimated for Iran economy. By simulating this model, the effects of the implementation of monetary and foreign exchange policies through policy instruments including bank interest rate, central bank international reserves and t...

Changes in the methodology and classifications of the balance of payments and the international investment position statistics

BPM6 Implementation In October 2014 Eurostat starts data dissemination according to the requirements of the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6), which was released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2009 and follows the fifth edition (BPM5) released in 1993. The BPM6 provides the standard framework for the compilation of statisti...