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LOCATION:Shougang Park\, Beijing\, China
SUMMARY:Launch of UNCTAD report measuring servicification and impacts of se
 rvices trade and policy
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DESCRIPTION:Services are increasingly embedded across the economy as inputs
  into agriculture\, manufacturing and other services. This process\, often
  referred to as servicification\, is being accelerated by digitalization a
 nd new technologies\, changing how firms produce\, trade and create value.
 Understanding these changes requires more than data on aggregate services 
 trade flows. Policymakers need evidence on how services trade and policy a
 ffect firms\, workers and sectors across the economy\, including outcomes 
 such as exports\, productivity\, employment and wages.UNCTAD’s report Me
 asuring servicification and impacts of services trade and policy provides 
 a practical framework for combining international sources with national da
 ta\, including administrative and firm-level information\, to answer such 
 policy questions.A central message is that developing countries often alre
 ady possess valuable information that could be used more effectively for s
 ervices trade policy. Business registers and censuses\, tax records\, ente
 rprise and labour surveys\, transaction-level trade data\, investment info
 rmation and other administrative sources can help reveal how services are 
 produced\, used and traded\, and how trade and policy changes affect firms
  and workers.Linking these datasets\, while protecting confidentiality\, c
 an generate much richer evidence for policy design and evaluation than agg
 regate trade statistics alone.What can this report help policymakers analy
 se?The report shows how existing data can be used to examine questions suc
 h as:How can servicification be measured\, including the use of services a
 s inputs in manufacturing\, agriculture and other sectors?Which firms and 
 workers participate in and benefit from services trade\, and how do outcom
 es vary across different types of firms and workers?How are services trade
  and policy associated with economic outcomes\, including exports\, produc
 tivity\, employment\, wages\, firm entry and exit\, and participation in v
 alue chains?What national datasets can be combined to answer these questio
 ns\, including trade transactions\, business registers\, tax records\, emp
 loyment data\, enterprise surveys and investment information?How can gover
 nments assess policy impacts\, by linking information on trade and regulat
 ory changes with firm-\, worker- and sector-level outcomes?From policy que
 stions to evidenceDifferent policy questions require different combination
 s of data. For example\, analysing how a change in services regulation aff
 ects firm performance may require combining information on the policy chan
 ge with business-register\, tax or enterprise data. Examining employment o
 r wage outcomes from services trade may require linking firm-level trade i
 nformation with labour-market or employer–employee data. Assessing outco
 mes for microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises can requir
 e combining trade information with firm characteristics.The report therefo
 re encourages countries to start from the policy question\, identify the i
 nformation needed to answer it and then determine which existing datasets 
 can be linked to provide that evidence.The publication complements UNCTAD&
 #039\;s 2025 Primer on data for trade in services and development policies
 . The first Primer maps the main sources of services trade data and where 
 to find them\; this second publication focuses on how these and other nati
 onal data can be combined and used to measure servicification and assess t
 he impacts of services trade and policy.Together\, the two publications ai
 m to help countries move from simply measuring services trade flows toward
 s understanding who gains\, through which channels and under what policy c
 onditions.Objective Present and discuss the findings of the UNCTAD report
  Measuring servicification and impacts of services trade and policyFoster 
 dialogue among policymakers\, experts and researchers on evidence-based ap
 proaches to services trade policyIdentify priorities for international coo
 peration and capacity-building to strengthen the use of data for trade pol
 icymaking in developing economies.Participation In-person participationMa
 ndatesThis work responds to the Geneva Consensus in particular paragraph 8
 0.15 which calls on UNCTAD “to improve the collection\, accessibility an
 d use of trade in services data to inform policy decisions\, to enable all
 \, particularly women and microenterprises and small and medium-sized ente
 rprises\, to leverage and benefit from trade in services and support the d
 evelopment of services-led trade export strategies.”It also follows up o
 n the twelfth session of the MYEM\, held on 15-16 April 2026\, which encou
 raged UNCTAD to further strengthen its work on trade in services for devel
 opment\, including by improving the use of services data in trade policyma
 king. https://unctad.org/meeting/multi-year-expert-meeting-trade-services
 -and-development-12th-session\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://uncta
 d.org/node/52736
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