APEC Capacity Building Seminar Workshop on Measurement of International Trade in Services

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• APEC Capacity Building Seminar Workshop on
  Measurement of International Trade in Services
• October 1 3, 2008
• Manila, Philippines

Session IX Group Workshop Presentation of
Group Outputs
Group 1 Presentation

• Hongkong
• Indonesia
• Malaysia

• Mexico
• Papua New Guinea
• Peru

PRESENTED BY Consuelo Soto Crovetto, Peru Group
Chair
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BACKGROUND

• The majority of the countries of this group
  worked with surveys. Some of us worked with one
  questionnaire and some other with detailed
  questionnaires for specific items like
  construction or telecommunications.
• We had a discussion in order to share our
  current experiences with the management of these
  forms and the problems we currently have (details
  in the next table)

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BACKGROUND

• We would conclude that all our economies are
  doing our best efforts to validate the
  information we have in order to publish confident
  information. We need to do a significant work
  with enterprises in order to make them conscious
  of the importance of the information they
  provide.
• Detailed information by countries, activities or
  modes of supply would be long term plans

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CURRENT PROBLEMS AND COMMENTS BY COUNTRY
COUNTRY PROBLEMS RECOMMENDATIONS
Hongkong Total population 200, 000 based on business registration. Sample size is 10.000, selected by the share of trade in services. The questionnaire is very long, bring difficulties to respondents. There is legal backup. Response rate is more than 90. The frequency of BOP is quarterly. There is quarterly survey as the preliminary figures estimation before annual survey.   Not applying fine, but strengthening relationship with business sect
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CURRENT PROBLEMS AND COMMENTS BY COUNTRY
COUNTRY PROBLEMS RECOMMENDATIONS
Indonesia Recent Surveys on communication, transportation and other business. Covered by law but the fine is too low, so still lack of response. 120 biggest companies selected by assets. For BOP, Bank of Indonesia also conduct another survey. Construction is important especially inward side. BPM5. Not applying fine but offering to exchange information
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CURRENT PROBLEMS AND COMMENTS BY COUNTRY
COUNTRY PROBLEMS RECOMMENDATIONS
Malaysia Survey compiled for BOP purpose. Started with transportation. As a study. Other categories will follow. Studying the data, not yet published Training program for newcomers.
Mexico Have low response rate to annual questionnaire. Because it is not compulsory to answer. To strengthen legal framework
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CURRENT PROBLEMS AND COMMENTS BY COUNTRY
COUNTRY PROBLEMS RECOMMENDATIONS
Papua New Guinea Statistical law is not inforced. And no fine is imposed for non response. Response rate is 50 for quarterly survey. The quarterly survey has good response. Census is done every 3 years for detailed information.
Peru Quarterly survey and annual survey. The main problem is classification of reported data Validate information in coordination with enterprises
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KEY AREAS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
KEY AREAS RECOMMENDATIONS REMARKS
To improve the information we have in order to comply with IMF, BPM5 It is important to have a legal framework to inforce responses eventhough they are not applied. To work with enterprises by asking further cooperation to maintain a good relationship. To design simple questionnaire that is easy to work with. Even countries provide written indications to enterprises they find it difficult to respond the current questionaire.

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KEY AREAS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
KEY AREAS RECOMMENDATIONS REMARKS
The standarization of concepts enterprises do not have detaild information as the manual requires especially for construction and telcommunication. To make use of the information available from developed countries or partner countries It is not easy to Work with with partner countries because of confidentiality issues.

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THANK YOU