It was accepted that maintaining exchange controls required a high level of foreign reserves.

Reserves at year end decreased to 142 million, back to their level of 2001.

Reserves at year's end decreased to 142 million, back to their level of 2001.

The Chinese government sits atop an astonishing level of foreign reserves greater than 2 trillion.

But those foreign exchange balances have grown far beyond the level needed as emergency reserves.

Managing a floating rate has also allowed Latin American countries to accumulate a significant level of international reserves.

Africa s natural gas reserves amount to about 8 of global reserves.

Developing countries as a whole accounted for more than 80 of global reserve accumulation during this period, and their current level of reserves approaches 5 trillion.

Reserves

Even if an SDR Substitution Account is established, it is unlikely that the dollar s share in international reserves would fall to an insignificant level.

The country has the world's largest natural gas reserves, the 8th largest oil reserves, and the second largest coal reserves.

Second, countries with large accumulations of dollar reserves will be shifting substantial fractions of those reserves into euros.

Covering this drop in reserves more than half of gas reserves and a fifth of oil reserves have been consumed with imports implies an annual cost of more than 300 billion.

(l) Other reserves

(j) Operating reserves

This pool of reserves surpasses developing countries immediate liquidity needs, leading to their increased creation and expansion of sovereign wealth funds, which have an additional level of assets of more than 3 trillion.

Argentina has particularly high potential for production of non conventional gas resources as well, given that it holds the world s third highest level of such reserves, after China and the United States.

It is estimated that the Norwegian section alone contains 54 of the sea's oil reserves and 45 of its gas reserves.

Africa is estimated to hold more than 10 of global oil reserves and one third of reserves of cobalt and base metals.

It has 10 of global oil reserves.

(g) Transfers to reserves

Our review has revealed that, as a group, developing countries have delivered on their commitments. Most have achieved a level of economic growth and have increased domestic resources and foreign exchange reserves.

Selling 2 trillion of reserves will take years.

Table 6 Comparison of reserves and staff liabilities

STATEMENT OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES, RESERVES AND FUND BALANCES

The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out trillions of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.

Other reserves comprise the following

a statement of assets, liabilities, reserves and fund balances

In paragraph 26 of its report, the Board expressed its concern about the level of reserves and the ability of the Tribunal to cover its liabilities for end of service and post retirement benefits under the present situation.

The SDR was introduced 40 years ago to supplement what was then seen as an inadequate level of global reserves, and was subsequently enshrined in the IMF s amended Articles of Agreement as the future principal reserve asset.

China held 610 billion in reserves and India, 125 billion.5 Members of ASEAN, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan Province of China also hold very sizeable reserves.

But, while the buildup of reserves currently around 7.6 trillion in emerging and developing economies protected them, money going into reserves was money not spent.

During QE2 (from November 2010 to July 2011), the Fed added a total of 557.9 billion to reserves, and excess reserves grew by 546.5 billion.

Jordan proposes to remediate the damage to its rangelands by creating and managing 185,000 hectares of rangeland reserves and wildlife reserves in the Eastern Badia.

Besides the largest conventional oil reserves and the second largest natural gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela has non conventional oil deposits (extra heavy crude oil, bitumen and tar sands) approximately equal to the world's reserves of conventional oil.

The concept of reserves is technical and economic, not geological.

Reserves of foreign currency provide a small return in interest.

International use of the dollar to hold foreign exchange reserves, denominate financial transactions, invoice trade, and as a vehicle in currency markets is below its level during the heyday of the Bretton Woods era, from 1945 to 1971.

a Including earmarked reserves, the total reserves are 70 million for 2002, 93 million for 2003 and 68 million for 2004.

a Including earmarked reserves, the total reserves are 70 million for 2002, 93 million for 2003 and 68 million for 2004.

According to the Oil and Gas Journal (January 1, 2009), the MENA region has 60 of the world's oil reserves () and 45 of the world's natural gas reserves ( ).

According to some estimates, Kazakhstan has the second largest uranium, chromium, lead, and zinc reserves, the third largest manganese reserves, the fifth largest copper reserves, and ranks in the top ten for coal, iron, and gold.

It possesses the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas resources.

Total reserves of titanium are estimated to exceed 600 million tonnes.

Fortunately, the focus of the debate is on reserves and not resources. Reserves are defined as the quantities of petroleum that are expected to be commercially recoverable from known fields.