foreign balance

Foreign-exchange reserves — Foreign exchange Exchange rates Currency band Exchange rate Exchange rate regime Exchange rate flexibility Dollarization Fixed exchange rate Floating exchange rate Linked exchange rate Managed float regime Markets Foreign exchange market Futures… …   Wikipedia

Foreign exchange reserves — (also called Forex reserves) in a strict sense are only the foreign currency deposits held by central banks and monetary authorities. However, the term in popular usage commonly includes foreign exchange and gold, SDRs and IMF reserve positions.… …   Wikipedia

Foreign direct investment — (FDI) or foreign investment refers to the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor.[1]. It is the sum of… …   Wikipedia

Foreign internal defense — (FID) is used by a number of Western militaries, explicitly by the United States but sharing ideas with countries including France and the United Kingdom, to describe an approach to combating actual or threatened insurgency in a foreign state… …   Wikipedia

Foreign relations of Iran — refers to inter governmental connections between Iran and other countries. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Islamic revolutionary regime of Ayatollah Khomeini dramatically reversed the pro Western foreign policy of the last Shah of Iran …   Wikipedia

Foreign relations of Kazakhstan — are primarily based on economic and political security. The Nazarbayev administration has tried to balance relations with Russia and the United States by sending petroleum and natural gas to its northern neighbor at artificially low prices while… …   Wikipedia

Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics — (FATS), also known as transnational corporation (TNC) data details the economic operations of foreign direct investment based enterprises. Collection of such information, and aggregation at the national level, can provide economists and… …   Wikipedia

balance of payments — noun singular the difference between the amount of money a country pays to foreign countries and the amount it receives from them …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

balance of trade — noun singular the difference between the value of all the goods a country sells to foreign countries and all the goods it buys from them …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

Foreign aid to Thailand — On July 31, 2003, Thailand repaid its outstanding obligations under a standby arrangement made with the International Monetary Fund designed to help it recover from the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The payment was made four years ahead of… …   Wikipedia

Balance of payments — In economics, the balance of payments, (or BOP) measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries. It is used to summarize all international economic transactions for that country during a specific time period …   Wikipedia