(January 1999)
This semi-annual survey is prepared and published jointly by the BIS and the OECD. It combines two important elements of countries' external indebtedness reported to the two institutions from creditor sources: the total external claims of banks in the BIS reporting area and the official and officially guaranteed or insured trade-related claims of banks and non-banks in twenty OECD countries, including in each case both short and long-term claims. While these two elements do not cover all of the external indebtedness of the countries and territories listed in the tables, in many instances they account for a very substantial portion of it and are available with a lag of about seven months. It should be noted that the data refer to gross external indebtedness, no account having been taken of borrowing countries' own claims on the reporting creditor institutions.
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