Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade: Second edition

Books, August 17, 2023

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Digital technologies enable buyers and sellers to place and receive orders on a global scale and enable instantaneous remote delivery of services directly into businesses and homes, including internationally.
The Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade sets out a conceptual and measurement framework for digital trade that aligns with the broader standards for macroeconomic statistics.
Aim: to help statistical compilers address policymakers’ needs for statistical evidence on digital trade.

Focuses on:
- cross-border digitally ordered goods and services,
- digitally delivered services,
- the role played by digital intermediation platforms.
Builds upon concepts set out in the first edition, published in 2019.

Includes extensive compilation guidance drawing upon substantive inputs and case studies from both developed and developing economies.
Covers a variety of survey and non-survey sources.
Provides a framework and template for the compilation of internationally comparable statistics on digital trade.

Subject: Central banks, Exports, Financial crises, Imports, International trade, Service exports, Trade in goods, Trade in services
Keywords: Asia and Pacific, delivered trade, digital intermediation platforms, Digital trade, digitalization, Exports, Global, ICT-enabled trade, Imports, international trade, measurement, ordered trade, Service exports, statistics, Trade in goods, Trade in services, trade statistics, trade transaction

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Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade
- Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade (Markdown version)
- Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade (PDF)