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Balance Of Payments And Exchange Rate

ICSE · Class 12 · Economics

Summary of Balance Of Payments And Exchange Rate for ICSE Class 12 Economics. Key concepts, important points, and chapter overview.

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Overview

Balance of Payments is a systematic record of all economic transactions between the residents of a country and the rest of the world during a given period, usually a year. It is a flow concept and has two main parts: current account and capital account. The current account records trade in goods, tr

Key Concepts

Balance of Payments is a systematic

Balance of Payments is a systematic record of all economic transactions between residents of a country and residents of foreign countries during a giv

Balance of trade is the difference

Balance of trade is the difference between the value of total imports and exports of visible material goods only. It is also called the merchandise ac

Current account records imports and exports

Current account records imports and exports of goods and services and unilateral transfers. It includes visible trade, invisible trade, and transfer p

Capital account records transactions that change

Capital account records transactions that change the assets or liabilities of a country. These include foreign direct investment, portfolio investment

Visible items are export and import

Visible items are export and import of goods. Invisible items are export and import of services. Services include factor services and non-factor servi

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the meaning and features of Balance of Payments
  • Distinguish between Balance of Trade, Current Account, and Capital Account
  • Classify BOP transactions into visible items, invisible items, unilateral transfers, and capital transactions
  • Explain autonomous items and accommodating items in BOP
  • Understand disequilibrium in BOP in accounting and functional sense

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