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Data Day Services Cluster -- Overview. Contact: Andreas.Maurer@wto.org. Countries reporting exports of selected BPM5 services components (October 1997-December 2008). (as a percentage of countries reporting total services). International Dissemination of BOP/EBOPS Statistics. FATS.
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Data Day Services Cluster -- Overview Contact: Andreas.Maurer@wto.org
Countries reporting exports of selected BPM5 services components (October 1997-December 2008) (as a percentage of countries reporting total services)
FATS Availability of FATS Statistics in OECD countries
.... 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
Prospects ...and other relevant information and projects • WTO Services Commitments Database • World Bank’s Regulatory Barriers in Services Trade Database • OECD’s Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
Prospects Key for Improving Statistics • Efforts by national agenciesin 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