International experts note that digital technologies have made it increasingly feasible for buyers and sellers to place and receive orders on a global scale. They also enable the instantaneous remote delivery of services directly into businesses and homes, including internationally.
In 2023, experts and scientists familiarized themselves with the second edition of the Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade is the outcome of a collaborative effort by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and it has greatly benefitted from the contribution of many experts along the way.
This edition of the Handbook, while it leaves the fundamental measurement framework unchanged, provides clarifications to the concepts and definitions related to digital trade, and to the guidelines on how to operationalize them. It reflects the advances that statistical compilers have made in the measurement of digital trade. Expanded compilation guidance is included, based on national and international efforts, and covering a variety of relevant survey and nonsurvey sources. A revised reporting template is also proposed, which offers flexibility to statistical compilers when collating components of digital trade, even when only partial information is available.
The authors of the Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade are Patrick Quill (IMF), Antonella Liberatore, David Brackfield and Julia Schmidt (OECD), Daniel Ker (UNCTAD), and Barbara D’Andrea Adrian, Joscelyn Magdeleine and Ying Yan (WTO)
The publication can be found at this link
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09.12.2023