In recent years, concerns were raised about the shortcomings of the existing official trade statistics for the purpose of reflecting bilateral economic relations. The high level of import content in exports makes gross bilateral trade statistics unsuitable for bilateral trade negotiations. Trade analysis requires new measures which better reflect the level of interdependencies among countries engaged in global value chains (GVCs). In order to understand the true nature of trade relationships, it is necessary to know what each country along a global value chain contributes to the value of a final product. In addition, it is important to understand how that contribution is linked to those of other suppliers in other countries coming before and after along the chain, and how much employment and income is generated through this value addition.
Within this context the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) in cooperation with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Trade Organization (WTO) and Eurostat are organizing an international conference on the measurement of trade and economic globalization.
The objective of this international conference is to discuss conceptual and practical ways of measuring trade and economic globalization, through the understanding of comprehensive statistical frame, global production and business practices, requirements and micro-data compilation for a global Supply-Use Table, firm heterogeneity and the impact of global production on national, regional and global economy. This international conference will bring together international and national experts in the compilation of trade, business or national account statistics and analysts/researchers who are interested in measuring trade and economic globalization.
For more detailed information, please see the Concept Note and Draft Agenda.
Day 1: Setting the stage
09:45 - 10:00
Group Photo
10:00 - 13:00
Morning Session: I - A comprehensive frame for measuring trade and economic globalization Chair: Ivo Havinga (UNSD)
- An overview of global SUT and IOT for measuring globalization and the use of natural resources (Arnold Tukker)
- The new political economy of resources (Jaakko Kooroshy, Chatham House)
- Measuring Trade in value added, jobs and income (Nadim Ahmad)
- Towards a new System of Extended International Accounts (Steve Landefeld)
14:30 – 17:00
Afternoon Session: II - Global production and Enterprise Group Registers Chair: Nadim Ahmad (OECD)
Day 2: Micro-data approaches
09:00 - 13:00
Morning Session: III - GVC analysis, Enterprise Classification and Firm heterogeneity Chair: Luis de la Fuente (Eurostat)
- Global Value Chains and classifications, statistical units and variables (Stefano Menghinello)
- International sourcing of business functions (Peter Boegh Nielsen)
- Combining GVC and global I-O approaches (Gary Gereffi)
- Measuring Costa Rica’s Participation in GVCs (Manfred Viquez, BCCR)
- Measuring Mexico’s manufacturing exports: micro- and macro perspectives (INEGI)
14:30 – 17:00
Afternoon Session Chair: Hubert Escaith (WTO)
Day 3: Integrating the Micro- and Macro-approach
09:00 - 12:45
Morning Session Chair: Steve Landefeld (Consultant UNSD)
12:45 - 13:00
Closing remarks – INEGI and UNSD
14:30 – 18:00
Afternoon Session: Meeting of the OECD expert group on extended SUTs
General Documents
- UN, 2013, “International trade statistics” (Report to the Statistical Commission)
- UN, 2014, “Measurement of international trade and economic globalization” (Report to the Statistical Commission)
- UNSD, Eurostat, WTO, UNCTAD, 2011, “Global Forum on Trade Statistics – Final Report”
Session 1
- Steven Landefeld, 2014, “Implications and Challenges associated with developing a New System of Extended International Accounts”
- OECD/WTO, 2012, “Trade in Value-Added: Concepts, Methodologies and Challenges” (Joint OECD - WTO Note)
- OECD, 2014, “Trade in Value Added, Jobs and Investment” (Ahmad and Ribarsky)
- UNSD, 2014, “Measuring International Trade and Economic Globalization” (Jansen, Loranger, Da Pont, Kroese, Lemmers and Hoekstra)
- Eurostat, 2013, “Global Value Chains and Economic Globalization - Towards a New Measurement Framework” (Sturgeon Report)
Session 2
- UNECE, Eurostat, OECD, 2011, “Impact of Globalization on National Accounts”
- UNECE, 2014, “Measuring Global Production in the National Accounts and the Balance of Payments” (de Haan, Connolly, Peltola and Dimova)
- US BEA, 2014, “Formulary Measures for the U.S. Current Account: Accounting for Transactions Attributable to Special Purpose Entities of Multinational Enterprises” (Dylan Rassier)
- IMF, 2013, “Why are the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative and the SDDS Plus Relevant for Financial Stability Analysis?” (Robert Heath)
- Eurostat, 2014, “Paper on Statistics on Enterprise Groups – the EGR potential”
- Eurostat, 2014, “Paper on FDI by ultimate host/ultimate investing country”
- UNECE, 2014, “Interim Guide to Measuring Global Production”
Session 3
- Stacey Frederick, 2014, “Combining the Global Value Chain and global I-O approaches”
- Costa Rica and IDE-JETRO, 2014, “Using the Input-Output Approach to Measure Participation in GVCs: The Case of Costa Rica” (Bullon, Mena, Meng, Sanchez, Vargas)
- Eurostat, 2014, “Paper on Services Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (STEC)”
- USITC, 2014, “Domestic content in China's exports and its distribution by firm ownership” (Ma, Wang, Zhu)
- Nielsen, Statistics Denmark, and Sturgeon, MIT Industrial Performance Center, 2014, “Using Business Functions to Measure International Trade and Economic Globalization”
- Nielsen, Statistics Denmark, and Sturgeon, MIT Industrial Performance Center, 2014, “Using Business Functions to Measure International Trade and Economic Globalization” [Annex]
Session 4
- Vladimir Markhonko, 2014, “Asymmetries in official international trade statistics and analysis of globalization”
- OECD, 2009, “Towards Harmonised Bilateral Trade Data for Inter-Country Input-Output Analyses: Statistical Issues” (Guo, Webb and Yamano)
- Ronald Jansen, 2011, “The Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-Added; Building on existing measures of Cross Border Trade”
Session 5
Session 6
- Tukker and Dietzenbacher, 2013, “Global Multiregional Input–Output Frameworks: an Introduction and Outlook”, Economic Systems Research (Dec 2013)
- Dietzenbacher, Los, Stehrer, Timmer and de Vries, 2013, “The Construction of World Input–Output Tables in the WIOD Project”, Economic Systems Research (Dec 2013)
Documents
- Concept Note
- Draft Agenda
- List of participants
- Asymmetries in official ITS and analysis of globalization - Vladimir Markhonko
- Combining the Global Value Chain and global I-O approaches - Stacey Frederick
- New System of Extended International Accounts - Steve Landefeld
- Information Note
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