Full Text Reference Resource: Trade & Development: UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2011

Download Full Text, Free
Report is available in English and French
From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development:

The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides essential data for analysing and measuring world trade, investment, international financial flows and development. Reliable statistical information is often considered as the first step during the preparation of making recommendations or taking decisions that countries will commit for many years as they strive to integrate into the world economy and improve the living standards of their citizens. Whether it is for research, consultation or technical cooperation, UNCTAD requires comparable, often detailed economic, demographic and social data, over several decades and for as many countries as possible.

[Clip]
The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2011 provides users with reliable coherent data on the following subjects:

• International merchandise trade: values, trends and regional trade zones
• Export and import structure by products and by regions of origin and destination, and related concentration and diversification indices
• Volume and terms of trade indices
• Average applied import tariff rates
• Trade in services: total trade and trade by sector
• Maritime transport: world merchant fleet
• Commodity prices and relevant price indices; production and processing of selected raw mineral commodities
• International financial data: current accounts, capital and financial accounts, foreign direct investment, external indebtedness, workers’ remittances, etc
• Indicators of development: GDP, population and labour, and selected development indicators

Download Full Text Report (513 pages; PDF)
Free
See Also: UN Pulse has direct links to past editions of the report for 2007-2010

Filed under: Data Files, Patrons and Users, Resources