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Action plan arising from the Guide “Impact of Globalization on National

Accounts”

UNECE Statistical Division 27 October 2011

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The Globalization Guide

Provides recommendations and best practices on how to deal with the impact of globalization on national accounts

Developed 2007-2011 by the Group of Experts on the Impact of Globalisation on National accounts, under the guidance of the Leadership Group

March-April 2011: electronic consultation with all CES member countries and organizations

June 2011: CES endorsed the Guide

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Content of the Globalization Guide

12 core chapters in three main groups:

• Multinational enterprises

• Trade in goods and services, and global manufacturing

• Household-related issues

Specific country experiences are presented as annexes to the chapters

Addendum on the impact of the financial crisis

Chapter 14 brings together the suggestions for further work from earlier chapters and proposes international fora that can advance the work

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The way ahead and a research agenda

The Guide does not address or solve all issues related to the impact of globalization

Meeting the statistical challenges presented by globalization will require continuing international cooperation

Issues for further work includes: Continuation of initiatives already started Conceptual issues Measurement issues Practical steps in data collection and presentation Exchanges of data and best practice

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Continuation of initiatives already started

IMF’s Coordinated Direct Investment Survey OECD Working Group on International Investment and its

network of investment experts OECD Task Force on IPPs The forthcoming Eurostat Task Forces on R&D and on

Goods for processing Work on improving remittance and related data e.g. Global

Remittances Working Group and The Suitland Working Group

Environmental issues on national accounts, implications of 2008 SNA to SEEA

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Conceptual issues Global manufacturing/production, including international

transactions in IPPs and merchanting of services SPEs: A harmonized definition and further clarification on

conceptual issues to improve the comparability of SPEs across countries

International labour movements: links between labour statistics and national accounts

Second homes: property be deemed to produce housing services continuously, or only when occupied?

E-commerce and outsourcing provide challenges for appropriate price deflators

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Measurement issues

Measurement and data issues related to the new standards on goods for processing and merchanting

Challenge of import substitution and e-commerce data for price statistics (data sources, quality adjustments)

Use of administrative data to estimate economic activities of complex enterprise structures: quasi-transit trade

Recording and estimating remittances: practical issues related to emerging transfer methods

Measurement of the stock of second homes abroad, and the correction for average occupation time

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Practical steps in data collection and presentation

Business surveys: better use (or additional questions) and linking with international trade data at enterprise level

Special surveys of large MNEs Separate coding of goods for processing in merchandise

trade. In the long run, development of trade documents allowing compilation of data both on physical flows and economic transactions

More intensive use of household surveys e.g. cross-border labour mobility, remittances, e-commerce

Better use of administrative sources, including tax registers Additional analytical tables for international labour movements Presentation of national accounts with and without SPEs

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Exchanges of data and best practice

Exchanges of data and bilateral comparisons between countries on:

• FDI

• Labour movements and remittances

• Non-resident dwellings (asymmetries in TSA) Exchanges of best recording practice among countries as

complement to international standards

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Prioritization of further work

After country consultations, the following topics have been identified as priorities for future work:

Conceptual and practical measurement issues in relation to global manufacturing

The recording of international transactions in IPPs

Outstanding measurement and data issues related to the implementation of the new standards on goods for processing and merchanting

A conceptual framework for dealing with SPEs, including a harmonized definition