Luciano Cohan

This dataset includes yearly index measuring the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Revealed comparative advantage (RCA) is based on Ricardian trade theory, which posits that patterns of trade among countries are governed by their relative differences in productivity. While the metric can be used to provide a general indication and first approximation of a country's competitive export strengths, it should be noted that applied national measures which affect competitiveness such as tariffs, non-tariff measures, subsidies and others are not taken into account in the RCA metric
For more information please refer to: https://unctadstat.unctad.org/datacentre/reportInfo/US.RCA

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Revealed Comparative Advantage Index

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is a body of the United Nations that focuses on issues related to trade, investment, and development. UNCTAD's main goals are to maximize the trade, investment and development opportunities of developing countries, assist them in their efforts to integrate into the global economy, and promote and achieve sustainable economic development.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Alphacast

This dataset includes quarterly information of portfolio investment activity within the financial account of the balance of payments. The data is measured in USD millions and covers multiple countries. The data is sourced from the IFS (International Financial Statistics) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

External Sector - Global - IMF - Portfolio investment

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization that was created to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange rate stability, and orderly exchange arrangements, and to provide resources to help countries to address balance of payments difficulties. The IMF provides policy advice, financial assistance, and technical assistance to its member countries.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

The country composition of the groups is as they were at the time of the publication. Variables correspond to the Current Account Balance (in % GDP), Real GDP growth, and Inflation rate (average prices). The year corresponds to the forecasted period

Global - IMF - World Economic Outlook - National Accounts

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) publishes the World Economic Outlook (WEO) twice a year, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the global economic situation and prospects. The WEO covers major advanced and emerging economies and provides a global economic forecast, including global GDP growth, inflation, and trade balance projections. It also includes chapters on specific issues such as monetary policy, fiscal policy, external sector, and financial sector developments.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - World Economic Outlook - By Country

This dataset includes yearly information about the balance of payments of different countries published by World Bank. The balance of payments tracks an economy's transactions with other countries, consisting of the current account (goods, services, income, and transfers) and the capital and financial account (capital transfers, non-produced assets, and financial transactions). The data is avaiable in current USD and as a percentage of GDP.

External Sector - Global - World Bank - Balance of Payments

The World Bank is a global development organization that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for the pursuit of economic development and poverty reduction. It is one of the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group, along with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

World Bank (WB)

This dataset includes yearly information of Global value chains (GVCs) published in World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS), about measures that are computed by a team of The World Bank and Bank of Italy researchers. There are two data concepts used. They are GVC Trade and GVC Output. Trade contains measures related to international trade. The unit of observation are exporting and importing country, sector, year and source. GVC Ouptut contains measures related to gross output of each country. The unit of observation is Country, Sector, Year and Source. Data is in millions of US Dollar. To access additional information and details regarding the indicators, please refer to: https://wits.worldbank.org/gvc/gvc-indicators-metadata.html

External Trade - Global - WITS - Global Value Chains (GVC)

The World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) is a trade software provided by the World Bank for users to query several international trade databases. WITS is software that includes several databases provided by partner international organizations and other sources. 

World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)

This dataset includes yearly information of Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR), using data from the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions.. MATR is an empirical measure of how restrictive official government policy is towards the international flow of goods and services. MATR is based on the IMF’s AREAER binary variables related to (i) exchange measures; (ii) arrangements for payments and receipts; (iii) imports and imports payments; (iv) exports and exports proceeds, and (v) payment and proceeds from invisible transfers and current transfers. This simplest version of MATR is the unweighted sum of up to 22 possible variables. Each subindicator is scored as 1 if a restriction is present in a particular country for a particular year, and 0 otherwise.

External Sector - Global - Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR)

MATR is an empirical measure of how restrictive official government policy is towards the international flow of goods and services. MATR is simple, ad hoc, plausible, quantitative, easily updated, based solely on policy-relevant measures of trade policy, and covers an unbalanced sample of about 157 countries annually between 1949 and 2020. MATR is also strongly correlated with existing measures of openness and trade policy but more comprehensive than existing measures. We use MATR to show that trade restrictions are harmful for the economy and lead to significant contractions in output.

Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR)

This dataset includes yearly imports and exports of international trade by product category for multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Data is in USD.

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - International Trade By Product

This dataset includes yearly information of the Foreign Direct Investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index (FDI RRI) published by OECD, for multiple countries. The FDI RRI measures four types of statutory restrictions on FDI: 1) foreign equity restrictions, 2) screening and prior approval requirements, 3) rules for key personnel, and 4) other restrictions on the operation of foreign enterprises. The FDI RRI is a composite index that takes values between 0 and 1, with 1 being the most restrictive.

External Sector - Global - OECD - Foreign Direct Investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental economic organization with 36 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

This dataset includes yearly information of MFN (Most Favoured Nation) and effectively applied import tariff rates for major categories of non-agricultural and non-fuel products for multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Data is in weighted average for each product group calculated from simple average at HS 6-digit level.

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Import Tariff Rates

This dataset includes yearly information of the Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (DSTRI) published by OECD, for multiple countries. The DSTRI measures cross-cutting barriers that inhibit or completely prohibit firms’ ability to supply services using electronic networks, regardless of the sector in which they operate. It includes five measures: 1) infrastructure and connectivity, 2) electronic transactions, 3) e-payment systems, 4) intellectual property rights and 5) other barriers to trade in digitally enabled services. Thus, it's a composite index that takes values between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates an open regulatory environment for digitally enabled trade and 1 indicates a completely closed regime.

External Sector - Global - OECD - Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index

This dataset includes yearly index measuring the concentration of exports and importsfor multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The product concentration index shows to which degree exports and imports of individual economies or of groups of economies are concentrated on a few products rather than being distributed in a more homogeneous manner among several products.

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Product Concentration Index

This dataset includes yearly information of international trade in ICT services for multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). ICT services are an aggregation of computer and telecommunications services. Data is in USD.

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Trade in Information & Communication Technology Services

This dataset includes yearly information on two core indicators of the ICT producing sector for multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The proportion (%) of total business sector workforce involved in the ICT sector: this indicator represents the workforce involved in the ICT sector divided by total business sector workforce (in%). The value added in the ICT sector as a percentage of total business sector value added: This indicator represents the estimated value added of the ICT sector divided by total business sector value added (in %).

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Information & Communication Technology Producing Sector

This dataset includes yearly information about transport services for a wide variety of countries. Transport services covers all transport services (sea, air, land, internal waterway, space, and pipeline) performed by residents of one economy for those of another and involving the carriage of passengers, movement of goods (freight), rental of carriers with crew, and related support and auxiliary services.

External Sector - Global - WITS - Transport Services

This dataset includes quarterly information of services exports and imports for multiple countries, published by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Data is in current USD. Data are available for total services and main service categories: goods-related services, transport, travel, and other services.

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External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Revealed Comparative Advantage Index
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - IMF - Portfolio investment
published in
Alphacast /
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Global - IMF - World Economic Outlook - National Accounts
published in
Alphacast /
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - World Economic Outlook - By Country

External Sector - Global - World Bank - Balance of Payments
published in
Alphacast /
World Bank (WB)

External Trade - Global - WITS - Global Value Chains (GVC)
published in
Alphacast /
World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)

External Sector - Global - Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR)
published in
Alphacast /
Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - International Trade By Product
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - OECD - Foreign Direct Investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index
published in
Alphacast /
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Import Tariff Rates
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - OECD - Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
published in
Alphacast /
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Product Concentration Index
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Trade in Information & Communication Technology Services
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Information & Communication Technology Producing Sector
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - WITS - Transport Services
published in
Alphacast /
World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)

External sector - Global - UNCTAD - Trade Services By Category
published in
Alphacast /
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

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External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Revealed Comparative Advantage Index published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - IMF - Portfolio investment published in Alphacast / International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Global - IMF - World Economic Outlook - National Accounts published in Alphacast / International Monetary Fund (IMF) - World Economic Outlook - By Country

External Sector - Global - World Bank - Balance of Payments published in Alphacast / World Bank (WB)

External Trade - Global - WITS - Global Value Chains (GVC) published in Alphacast / World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)

External Sector - Global - Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR) published in Alphacast / Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - International Trade By Product published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - OECD - Foreign Direct Investment Regulatory Restrictiveness Index published in Alphacast / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Import Tariff Rates published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - OECD - Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index published in Alphacast / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Product Concentration Index published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Trade in Information & Communication Technology Services published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - UNCTAD - Information & Communication Technology Producing Sector published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

External Sector - Global - WITS - Transport Services published in Alphacast / World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)

External sector - Global - UNCTAD - Trade Services By Category published in Alphacast / United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)