Balance of payments and other external statistics

Published on the 26th of November 2025

Séminaires
30 March 2026 - 09:30

This course is designed to invite participants to reflect on ways to better measure globalisation and enlarge potential uses of balance of payments statistics. Against this background, the seminar will focus in particular on hot topics reflecting the multidimensional phenomena of globalisation such as: remittances; revenue from financial services; transport services; analytical value of data on trade in value added; data on services by modes of supply.

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Dates: 30-31 March 2026
9h30
Duration: 2 days
Application deadline: 26 March 2026
Language: English
Location: Online
Contact: Luwana SCHALL
E-mail : luwana.schall@banque-france.fr

Content

Presenters will be high-level experts from Banque de France.

The course will cover for example the following topics:

  • Data collection with non-financial enterprises and insurances
  • Estimating the financial intermediation services charges indirectly measured in national accounts and the balance of payments
  • Consistency between BoP and national accounts
  • Estimating CIF-FOB data
  • Global value chains
  • Trade in value added
  • Compensation of employees and remittances
  • Statistics on Trade in services
  • Analysis of competitiveness
  • Adaptation of statistics to real and financial globalization


Target participants

The seminar is intended for statisticians or economists from central banks dealing with the elaboration or the use of balance of payments or other external statistics, who wish to enhance the analysis of economic globalisation. Participants might be invited to contribute actively through presentations or roundtables.

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Updated on the 26th of November 2025