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  "title": "Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade: Second edition",
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  "summary": "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.",
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      "content": "- 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.\n- 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.\n- Aim: to help statistical compilers address policymakers’ needs for statistical evidence on digital trade."
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      "heading": "Scope and focus",
      "content": "- Focuses on:\n  - cross-border digitally ordered goods and services,\n  - digitally delivered services,\n  - the role played by digital intermediation platforms.\n- Builds upon concepts set out in the first edition, published in 2019."
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      "content": "- Subject: Central banks, Exports, Financial crises, Imports, International trade, Service exports, Trade in goods, Trade in services\n- 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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    "Published: August 17, 2023",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9789287073600.071",
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    "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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