The Difference Between the Value of the Foreign Assets Owned

question 126

Multiple Choice

The difference between the value of the foreign assets owned by a nation's citizens and the nation's assets owned by foreign citizens is called the

• A)current account balance.
• B)capital account balance.
• C)net international investment position.
• D)balance of payments outcome.

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Definitions:

Projection

An ego defense mechanism whereby individuals attribute to other people characteristics or impulses they do not wish to acknowledge in themselves.

Defecating

The act of expelling feces from the body's large intestine through the anus.

Ego Ideal

A component of the personality comprising the standards and aspirations for behaviors that one strives to achieve.

Id

in Freudian psychoanalysis, it represents the part of the human psyche that is unconscious and contains the basic drives and instinctual desires.