Events and Projects

The Global Forum should be the start of a gradual change in measuring, compiling and presenting international trade statistics. Follow-up or other related events and projects are posted on this website.

Projects
  • WIOD - World Input-Output Database
Events
  • Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics for Arab Countries
  • Joint Kiel Institute-World Bank Workshop on Services
  • Latin America's prospects for upgrading in global value chains
  • Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics
  • Seminar on International Trade Statistics
  • The Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-Added - Developing New Measures of Cross Border Trade
  • OECD Working Party on Globalisation of Industry
  • Global Forum on Trade Statistics

Projects

WIOD - World Input-Output Database

The World Input-Output Database aims to develop databases, accounting frameworks and models to increase our understanding of the increasingly pressing trade-offs between socio-economic and environmental developments. The core of the database will be a set of harmonized supply and use tables, alongside with data on international trade in goods and services. These two sets of data will be integrated into sets of intercountry input-output tables. Taken together with extensive satellite accounts with environmental and socio-economic indicators, these industry-level data provide the necessary input to several types of models that can be used to evaluate policies aimed at striking a suitable balance between growth, environmental degradation and inequality across the world.

Calendar of Events

Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics for Arab Countries

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the Department of Statistics of Jordan, the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS) and the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), are jointly organizing a Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics.

Amman, Jordan
12 – 14 June 2012

Joint Kiel Institute-World Bank Workshop on Services

Co-organized by the Kiel Institute and the World Bank, the workshop brought together leading researchers in the area of trade in services and will cover new evidence on the patterns of trade in services, the effects of services trade and services reforms on welfare, jobs, and the manufacturing sector. The workshop also included a session on data on service trade flows and service trade policies. The workshop welcomes the participation of World Bank colleagues from operations as well as researchers.

Washington D.C., USA
23 May 2012

Latin America's prospects for upgrading in global value chains

Four international organizations (ECLAC, IDB, OECD and WB) and Colegio de México organized a joint conference on Latin America's Prospects for Upgrading in Global Value Chains. Its main purpose was to take stock and expand the range of empirical and institutional analyses on the participation and upgrading of Latin American firms in global value chains, including policies that promote this goal with researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders.

Mexico City, Mexico
14 – 15 March 2012


Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics for Asia

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics of China, organized a Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics. The Seminar aims to enhance the capacity of National Statistical Offices of Asian countries to produce reliable and high quality trade statistics.

Beijing, China
24 – 26 October 2011


Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics for Eastern Europe and CIS

As a follow-up to the Global Forum on Trade Statistics in February 2011 in Geneva, UNSD, in cooperation with Eurostat and Statistics Lithuania, organized a seminar for countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This seminar focused on the implementation of IMTS 2010 with emphasis on linking trade and other economic statistics.

Vilnius, Lithuania
26 – 30 September 2011


The Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-Added - Developing New Measures of Cross Border Trade

Global production has become increasingly fragmented and different stages of production are now regularly performed in different countries. As inputs cross borders multiple times, traditional statistics on trade values - measured in gross terms - do not reflect economic reality in respect of the value-added in any particular country. The aim of this workshop was to bring together experts in this subject to present their ongoing work in an effort to identify the state-of-the-art, as well as existing data gaps, and the direction of future work in this area.

Washington DC, USA
9 - 10 June 2011


OECD Working Party on Globalisation of Industry

The past decades have witnessed a strong trend towards the international dispersion of value chain activities such as design, production, marketing, distribution, etc. Different stages in the production process are increasingly located across different economies and intermediate inputs like parts and components are produced in one country and then exported to other countries for further production and/or assembly in final products. While distribution, sales and production activities were the first to lead the way, R&D and decision-making activities are also increasingly (re-) located internationally. The meeting of the Working Party took place on 19 and 20 May 2011 at the OECD in Paris

Paris, France
19 – 20 May 2011


Global Forum on Trade Statistics

Political leaders from WTO and UN, as well as leaders in trade analysis, research and statistics gave their views on the most prominent and urgent trade issues and their corresponding data needs at the Global Forum on Trade Statistics, 2-4 February 2011, at the WTO in Geneva

Geneva, Switzerland
2 – 4 February 2011