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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. For better or for worse, I have been trying to track the evolution of the foreign ...

Balance of payments records the value of the country's transactions with the rest of the world. It shows changes in financial claims on, and liabilities to, the rest of the world. International ...