Third, a significant recent achievement on external accounts statistics was our contribution to the Co-ordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) of the IMF. This large database provides information on country-wise inward and outward direct investment. On the Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics, we have implemented the Sixth edition of IMF’s Manual, ahead of many advanced economies.
Fourth, the Reserve Bank conducts several quarterly forward-looking sample surveys in the areas of industrial outlook, consumer confidence and inflation expectations to aid monetary policy making. The results of these surveys are now disseminated in public domain simultaneously with our quarterly report on Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments accompanying the monetary policy statement.