balance of payments

A systematic record of a nation's total payments to foreign countries, including the price of imports and the outflow of capital and gold, along with the total receipts from abroad, including the price of exports and the inflow of capital and gold.

balance of payments

(Economics) the difference over a given time between total payments to foreign nations, arising from imports of goods and services and transfers abroad of capital, interest, grants, etc., and total receipts from foreign nations, arising from exports of goods and services and transfers from abroad of capital, interest, grants, etc.

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Noun

balance of payments - a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable balance of payments exists when more payments are coming in than going out"

balance of international payments

accounting - a system that provides quantitative information about finances

capital account - (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities

current account - that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments

Translations

balance of payments n → bilancia dei pagamenti

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for Science and Technology, Kuwait) present detailed exposition--in diagrammatic and mathematical representations--of models of exchange rate determination and the balance of payments.

The theory and empirics of exchange rates by Reference & Research Book News

Byline: AFP FRANKFURT: The eurozone s balance of payments fell back into negative territory in August, showing a modest deficit of 1.

Eurozone back in payments deficit: ECB by Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)

Byline: The Daily Star Summary: BEIRUT: Lebanon's balance of payments in the first nine months of this year recorded a surplus of $4.

Lebanon balance of payments surplus hits record $4.8bn by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

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