pacific economic bulletin38 bulletin volume 9 number 1 1994 asia press sectoral balances savings and investment in solomon islands keith wood reliable national accounts data for have not been available several years order to provide estimates of the flows between public private overseas sectors 1985 92 use is made fact that income must their counterpart changes stocks as recorded by financial system from principles accounting which require ultimately a balanced set double entry deficit any one be offset net surplus other two if are insufficient finance government nation whole spends more than it earns becomes indebted sector running current account part balance payments also includes capital change reserves definition thus