Because many developing countries fail to report trade statistics to the United Nations, there has been an interest in using partner-country data to fill these information gaps. The author used partner-country statistics for 30 developing countries to "estimate" actual (concealed) trade data and analyzed the magnitude of the resulting errors. The results indicate that partner-country data are unreliable even for estimating trade in broad aggregate...
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INFORMACIÓN
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1995/08/31
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS1501
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2010/07/01
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Are partner-country statistics useful for estimating "missing" trade data?
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partner country