Firstly, this essay will talk about the definition of balance of payments, what the meaning of balance of payments has been in deficit and how to improve balance of payment.
Balance of payments is a record of all recorded financial transactions between the UK and the rest of the world in a particular financial year.
Balance of payments deficit means the current account is negative which means import is more than export or capital outflow is more than inflow. This essay would like to give a definition of import and export. Import means trade in goods plus services. And export means sale goods and services to another counties. Capital outflow or inflow is the investment income different beyond countries. Balance of payments is current account plus capital account. Current account different must be equal to capital account different because the accounting procedure. (Problems of Balance of Payments Disequilibria, 2006)
Moreover, consumption and services supply is not enough to cope with local demand. Therefore, import value maybe high while demand for foreign goods in another country . That may makes balance of payments deficit.
Besides, because of local production cost increasing makes other countries need to buy expensive good or services. Thus, export value will be low. However, because of export value is low and need to buy foreign goods. Thus, there is a deficit. There are the same at increase the cost of buying UK goods for services. Therefore, the export value maybe very low. But the export value is unchanged then current account maybe deficit. (Balance of payments, 2007)
Furthermore, this is a method to solve the deficit of balance of payments. It needs to improve balance of payments. Balance of payments does not mean the current account or net capital flow are