FOC on Internationalization and Economic Globalization

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FOC on Internationalization and Economic
Globalization
Ronald Jansen Chief, Trade Statistics Branch,
UNSD/DESA New York jansen1_at_un.org
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Background

• Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO
• Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of OECD
• Walter Radermacher, Chief Statistician of the
  European Union
• World Bank, IDE-JETRO, USITC

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Policy Questions

• What does each country along a global value chain
  contribute to the value of a final product?
• How much employment is created through this value
  addition?
• What is the effect of trade and investment on
  innovation and knowledge transfer?

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Replies from statistical community
Eurostat Report on Global Value Chains and
Economic Globalization OECD-WTO initiative on
Trade in Value-Added UNECE Handbook on Global
Production UN Statistical Commission Report
E/CN.3/2013/7
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Reply from the UN Statistical Commission
Friends of the Chair group

• Mandate Prepare a concept paper
• on the scope and content of the measurement of
  internationalization and economic globalization
• on an appropriate mechanism for coordination

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FOC member countries and agencies Moderator
Statistics Canada Europe Denmark, Ireland,
Netherlands, Italy, Russia America Colombia,
Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, USA Africa
Morocco, Cape Verde, South Africa, Uganda Asia
China, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand
Pacific New Zealand M/East Iran,
Oman Agencies Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WTO,
UNSD
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Concept PaperInternationalization and economic
globalization
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Information Base

• Basic statistics on international trade,
  investment, commercial presence, outsourcing of
  business functions, transfer of intellectual
  property products
• Accounting framework of the System of National
  Accounts
• Indicators related to internationalization and
  economic globalization

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Integration

• Horizontal integration
• Linking all basic data to the business register
• Vertical integration
• Input-Output tables of national accounts
• International input-output tables for the
  measurement of trade in value-added

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Communication

• Global Value Chains analysis
• Concepts
• GVC maps
• Presentation of data
• Linking results to Policy questions

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Thank you
Ronald Jansen Chief, Trade Statistics Branch,
UNSD/DESA New York jansen1_at_un.org
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