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World Trade Indicators 2008 http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008

World Trade Indicators 2008 http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008. Ravindra A. Yatawara Data Day at the WTO May 18 th - May 19 th to 2009 Geneva, Switzerland. What is the WTI Project?. Comprehensive database of trade-related indicators of policy and performance

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World Trade Indicators 2008 http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008

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  1. World Trade Indicators 2008http://www.worldbank.org/wti2008 Ravindra A. Yatawara Data Day at the WTO May 18th - May 19th to 2009 Geneva, Switzerland

  2. What is the WTI Project? • Comprehensive database of trade-related indicators of policy and performance • Yearly data from 1995-2008 (thanks to ITC for 2005-08) • Information on other trade databases and links • Online Tool- Benchmarking and Ranking Tool • Country rankings (default and customized) • Charts, tables, and maps (default and customized) • Users can choose time periods and country groups • 210 Country Trade-at-a-Glance (TAAG) tables • 139 Country briefs • Overview report

  3. Why? Provide impetus for trade policy changes by highlighting performance relative to competitors/partners Support overall trade negotiations and policy design by facilitating overtime and cross-country comparison of different dimensions of policy affecting trade outcomes – data quite aggregated- not HS6 Highlight gaps in the data

  4. Database assembles existing information and provides new indicators • Production weighted tariff averages • Share of tariff lines with a zero MFN tariff rate • MFN zero duty imports and exports values • Imports and exports to/from partners in FTA and CUs • Utilization rates and value of EU and US preferences • Extent of services trade liberalization commitments • Index of export product concentration from UNCTAD • Index of import product concentration • Export market destination/ import origin concentration indices • Share of top 5 exports in total exports • Remittance Inflows as a % of Total Exports/Imports

  5. Structure of WTI database: organizing for users

  6. TRADE POLICY-Values/Ranks • Tariff Trade Restrictive Indices (default), OTRIs- • Tariffs -MFN applied vs. applied incl pref • Ad valorem (AV) only, incl AVE • All goods, agric, NAMA • Average, weighted ,dispersion, max • MFN- O import value (% of import value) • GATS comittement index

  7. External Environment Market Access – MA- TTRI (OTRI) ROW tariffs REER

  8. Institutional Environment • Doing Business Indicators • Governance indicators

  9. Trade Facilitation • Logistics Performance Index (LPI) – default • Trading Across Borders - Doing Business

  10. Trade Outcomes • Goods and Services trade growth- real,nominal, share of GDP • Goods vs. Services • Product and Market Concentration indices for Exports and Imports

  11. WTI Functionalities • Views: • Country Rankings • Country Snapshots • Country Comparisons • Overtime Comparisons • Map

  12. Default ranking: Top 5 countries

  13. Alternative ranking: Top 5 countries

  14. Overhang=Bound-Applied Policy Space

  15. Share of exports to FTA/CU partner

  16. WTI 2009 Launch – September More Analytics Export taxes, trade finance Actual services trade restrictiveness

  17. Thank You Comments , Suggestions, Ideas welcome ryatawara@worldbank.org

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