contact: guy.karsentywto.org

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Data Day Services Cluster -- Overview
Contact Andreas.Maurer_at_wto.org
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Countries reporting exports of selected BPM5
services components (October 1997-December 2008)
(as a percentage of countries reporting total
services)
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International Dissemination of BOP/EBOPS
Statistics
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Availability of FATS Statistics in OECD countries
FATS
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.... But also other indicators are of interest
for analysis

• Mode 3 and Foreign Direct Investment statistics
• (stocks and flows, important complement to
  FATS)
• Other FATS variables
• (number of service suppliers, employees, value
  of assets)
• Sectoral statistical frameworks tourism , health
• Supplementary information from BPM6 linked to the
  movement of mode 4 persons
• Production, quantitative, employment indicators

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Prospects
...and other relevant information and projects

• WTO Services Commitments Database
• World Banks Regulatory Barriers in Services
  Trade Database
• OECDs Services Trade Restrictiveness Index

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Prospects
Key for Improving Statistics

• Efforts by national agencies in charge of
  statistics
• Governments willingness to allocate resources
  to authorities
• Co-operation between national institutions
• Co-operation between international and regional
  institutions, and support to national
  initiatives
• Effective technical assistance
• Compilation guidance