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International merchandise trade statistics course boosts participants’ knowledge on data on the movements of goods between countries and areas.
By Simonetta Zarrilli and Henri Luomaranta, UNCTAD
UNCTAD is working with national statistical offices to better measure the scale of illegal movements of money across borders to inform firmer policy action.
Drawing on a powerful new database that tracks and traces the plastic life cycle, UNCTAD shows where countries can apply trade policy pressure to reduce pollution.
The project and related guidelines will support interested African countries to assess the types of illicit financial flows relevant to their national contexts.
Pilot projects are using the new framework to calculate the costs of illicit trade and business practices in Afghanistan, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama and Peru.
Services sector remains hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, dropping to levels last seen in the 1990s, nowcasts from UNCTAD's 2020 Handbook of Statistics show.
UNCTAD and its partners embark on a project to harness data and statistics for gender-responsive trade policy.
Gold accounts for 77% of the $40 billion worth of under invoiced extractive commodity exports from Africa, according to UNCTAD research. Diamonds represent 12% and platinum 6%.
