The Current Account Task Team (CATT) is one of the Task Teams (TTs ... Further details on the mandate and operations; guidance notes and working procedures; composition; and key issues to be addressed ...

The current account deficit widened $228.2 billion, or 25.2%, to a record $1.13 trillion in 2024. It represented 3.9% of GDP, the highest since 2022 and up from 3.3% in 2023. The large current ...

This paper studies the dynamics of external accounts during 278 economic recession events in the past 60 years and sheds light on key factors that shape these patterns. Economic recessions trigger ...

The country's current account surplus was once considered a sign of export might and a source of confidence in the safe-haven yen. But the composition has changed over the last decade with trade ...

New Zealand’s annual current account deficit for the year ended September 2018 reached $10.5 billion, Stats NZ said today. Although this is the largest annual current account deficit since 2009 ...