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ASEAN: Trade in digitally deliverable services
It’s a Singapore Story As I wrote in an earlier post, there is no single accepted definition of ‘green goods’ (and therefore green trade). For digital trade, there now appears to be a definition in the IMF-OECD-WTO-UNCTAD Handbook on digital trade, but data are hard to come by even for OECD countries. Since there is…
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ASEAN: More trade, more diverse trade partners 1996 vs 2023
I am entropied out. But before year’s end I thought I would apply Teza’s method to visualize trade diversity for ASEAN economies. How concentrated are your trading relationships? This appears to be becoming an issue for many countries for various reasons. For ASEAN economic coercion from the United States is the main reason for looking…
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A simpler ‘product space’
Position of Singapore and Timor Leste 2023 The product space in the complexity literature (Hidalgo, Hausmann and others) is, as one would expect, quite complex. This is why they examine country and regional dynamics on a static product space. A distinct advantage of the approach is that it incorporates proximity, which provides information on the…
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