Usable Data for Economic Policymaking and Research? The Case of Lao PDR's Trade Statistics

Shintaro Hamanaka and Aiken Tafgar
Additional contact information
Aiken Tafgar: Asian Development Bank

No 8710, Working Papers from Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an initiative of UNESCAP and IDRC, Canada.

Abstract: This report assesses the quality of Lao PDR’s trade statistics by comparing Lao PDR’s export/import data with its trade partners’ import/export data (mirror data). While the mirror technique is constrained by the fact that partners’ data also can have some problems, it is a useful method to obtain a snapshot of the quality of trade data.

Keywords: Lao PDR trade statistics; export/import data; trade partner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations Track citations by RSS feed

Published in ARTNeT website

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.unescap.org/tid/artnet/pub/wp8710.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:esc:wpaper:8710

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an initiative of UNESCAP and IDRC, Canada.
Series data maintained by Yann Duval ().