## Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade: Second edition

_Books, August 17, 2023_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 17, 2023
- Series: Books
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9789287073600.071

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### Overview
- 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.

### Scope and focus
- 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.

### Compilation guidance and content
- 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 areas and keywords
- 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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- Also available in العربية, français, español

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