BIS announces that its consolidated banking data will now be released on a quarterly basis. Also, banking data from two new countries, Hong Kong and Portugal, have now been added.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has created this 94-page guide to international banking statistics in order to "provide reporting countries with definitions and guidelines for the reporting of data; secondly, to give a detailed account of current country practices regarding the coverage and disaggregation of the reported data." The Guide itself is broken into three parts. Part I,...
As part of its mission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) collects various statistics needed to create reports for both its member nations and the general public. Visitors can browse a variety of data sets as well as download data in Excel file format. A useful glossary is also provided.
Produced by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (ESA), this new report offers a review of the worldwide economic situation in 1998 and a forecast for 1999. Offered in .pdf format, the report contains a global overview and six chapters analyzing Developed Economies, Economies in Transition, Developing Economies, International Trade, Financial Markets, and Official Development Finance...