Are partner-country statistics useful for estimating "missing" trade data? (English)

Because many developing countries fail to report trade statistics to the United Nations, there has been an interest in using partner-country data to fill these information gaps. The author used partner-country statistics for 30 developing countries to "estimate" actual (concealed) trade data and analyzed the magnitude of the resulting errors. The results indicate that partner-country data are unreliable even for estimating trade in broad aggregate...
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Yeats,Alexander James.

Are partner-country statistics useful for estimating "missing" trade data? (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1501 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/256801468764415488

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