Do managers and experts agree? A comparison of alternative sources of trade facilitation data

Alberto Behar ()

No 2010-29, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: This paper constructs country-level aggregates of trade facilitation measures from firm-level responses in the Enterprise Surveys and compares them with the Doind Business indicators, the Logistics Performance Index and the Enabling Trade Index. Correlations between the data sources are low even for very specific and simlar questions. We also us the Enterprise Surveys to distinguisj between within-country inter-firm varaiation and between-country variation, finding that the latter acccounts for only a quarter of the total. for the purposes of identifying where reform is needed and estimating the relationship between trade facilitation and exports, these findings rasie the issue of which form of variation is more informative and which data source is more reliable.

Date: 2010
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