Publisher's Synopsis
The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides a comprehensive, reliable, coherent and comparable collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment and development for individual countries, geographical regions and for selected economic groupings. The publication presents consolidated reference statistics considered of particular importance for describing how developing countries have evolved in the context of globalization for the following subjects: International merchandise trade, exports and imports structure by products and by regions of origin and destination, and related concentration and diversification indices; volume and unit value indices of exports and imports, terms of trade and purchasing power indices of exports; applied import tariff rates; international trade in services, exports and imports of services by service categories; world merchant fleet; commodity free-market prices and price indices; international financial data: current account net of balance of payments, foreign direct investment, migrants' remittances, and indicators of development: gross domestic product, and population. The printed edition of the Handbook is a tool for research, policy making and education, which can also be used in conjunction with the DVD which contains the full time series of data. The DVD presents figures for more economic groupings than the printed version, as well as figures for trade and interregional groups.
