ESD Data Bank

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..

Direct investment refers to capital participation in a company in which the investor has a significant degree of influence on management of the company. By convention, this is manifested by ownership of at least ten percent of the company’s equit..

The capital account consists of capital transfers and acquisition and disposal of nonproduced, nonfinancial assets between residents and nonresidents. This also includes grants and donations, the intention of which is for investment (i.e., machinery an..

Secondary Income Account shows current transfers between residents and nonresidents. These are receipts or provisions in cash or in kind for nothing in return. Current transfers are classified into personal transfers and other..

Primary Income Account shows flows for the use of labor and financial resources between resident and nonresident institutional units. Primary income represents the return that accrues to institutional units for their contribution to the production proc..

cover transactions in transportation (freight and passenger), travel, communication and other business and recreational services, among others.

Goods are physical, produced items over which ownership rights can be established and whose economic ownership can be passed from one institutional unit to another by engaging in transactions.