| Data: | Total reserves in months of imports | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | FI.RES.TOTL.MO | ||||||||
| Topic: | Economic Policy & Debt: Balance of payments: Reserves & other items | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Total reserves comprise holdings of monetary gold, special drawing rights, reserves of IMF members held by the IMF, and holdings of foreign exchange under the control of monetary authorities. The gold component of these reserves is valued at year-end (December 31) London prices. This item shows reserves expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services they could pay for [Reserves/(Imports/12)]. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | 0 | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | 0 | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
