LAO P.D.R. : Assessing the Quality of Trade Statistics /

This paper assesses external trade statistics in Lao PDR by looking at mirror statistics, and with reference to international experience in compilation and dissemination of external trade data. We find that exports could be underreported by 8 to 50 percent, while imports could be underreported by 30...

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Tác giả chính: Bannister, Geoffrey
Tác giả khác: Bikoi, Theodore, Ghazanchyan, Manuk
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/251
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF
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