World Bank data on short-term external debt positions and transactions for deposit-taking corporations, excluding central banks. The dataset likely contains quarterly statistics on financial liabilities and flows denominated in US dollars. It is sourced from the Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS initiative.
Use Cases
- Analyzing short-term external debt trends for financial sector vulnerability assessment (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Modeling the relationship between external debt flows and exchange rate volatility (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Benchmarking a country's financial statistics against international reporting standards (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on the World Bank platform.
- Sourced from the authoritative Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS initiative.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Quarterly External Debt Statistics SDDS
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
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