ESD Data Bank

Debt service payments to exports of goods and services, interest payments to GDP, and net resource transfer or net flow to GDP.

External Debt covers all short-term and medium-term obligations of the BSP, domestic commercial bank, public and private sectors' payable to non-residents. Short-term external debt obligations are those with maturities of one year or less, while medium..

Gross International Reserves (GIR) are foreign assets held by the BSP in foreign investments, gold, and foreign exchange. These are also supplemented by claims to the International Mo..

The exchange rate is the price of a unit of foreign currency in terms of the domestic currency. In the Philippines, for instance, the exchange rate is conventionally expressed as the value of one US dollar in peso equivalent. For example, US$1 = P50.00..

Reserve assets are those external assets that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other rela..

Other Investments is a residual category that includes positions and transactions other than those included in direct investments, portfolio investments, financial derivatives and employee stock options, and reserve assets. To the extent that the follo..

Financial Derivatives transactions cover largely the settlement of obligations arising from financial derivative contracts. Financial derivative is a financial instrument that is linked to another specific financial instrument, indicator or commodity, ..

Portfolio investment is usually referred to as “hot money” since the investor’s motiveis short-term as opposed to a direct investor’s significant degree of influence in a company. A portfolio investor will buy or sell a financia..