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Seminar on statistics of international trade in services

14-17 December 2004, Beirut, Lebanon

Agenda

 


Tuesday
14 December

 

  
 

Registration of the participants

  
  1. Opening of the meeting  
First Session: 2. Adoption of the agenda  
  3. Overview of current revision processes affecting the measurement of international trade in services  
   
 

4 . Status of International Trade in Services Statistics in the ESCWA region (ESCWA)

 
 

5 . Discussion.

  
 

 

 
Second Session:

6. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services (MSITS) - An Introduction (WTO)

  
 

7. Discussion

 
 

8. Country Presentation (Palestine)

  
Wednesday
15 December


 
Third Session:

9. Use of statistics of international trade in services (World Bank)

  
 

10. Discussion

  
 

11. Services transactions between residents and non-residents (IMF)

 
 

12. Discussion

 
 

13. Data collection on International Trade in Services at the international level (UNSD, IMF)

 
  14. Discussion  
  15 . Country Presentations (Egypt, Iraq, Jordan)  

Thursday
 16 December

 
Fourth Session:

16. Foreign affiliate trade in services statistics (FATS) (UNCTAD)

Additional material (pdf)

 

  
  17 . Discussion  
  18. Country Presentation (Yemen & Syria)  
  19. Experience of ESCWA member countries on compilation of foreign direct investment statistics (FDI) (ESCWA)  
  20. Discussion  
  21 . Country presentations (Qatar & Oman)  
 

22. Measurement of remittances and other flows in the context of the movement of natural persons (UNSD)

 
   
  23 . Discussion  
Friday
17 December		  
Fifth Session: 24. Country presentations (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait)  
  25. Tour De Table.  
     
Sixth Session: Conclusions and recommendations.