Trade in value added research covered on RTL-Z
| Date: | 25 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gauging the strength of the Netherlands of a trading nation and analysing where it specialises should use data on trade in value added, rather than the traditional gross trade statistics. Well-known to experts, but Marcel Timmer's research in the...
Productivity and convergence paper accepted in JoE
| Date: | 21 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
A paper by Robert Inklaar and Erwin Diewert on "Measuring industry productivity and cross-country convergence" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics, in a special issue on economic measurement. The paper finds that cross-country...
Manufacturing and services need each other
| Date: | 17 November 2015 |
Gaaitzen de Vries and Marcel Timmer finished a report for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairsand VNO/NCW titled: “Dutch Manufacturing Competing in Global Value Chains”. The report stresses the mutual dependence of manufacturing and services for the...
Peer-review of new FAO Agricultural Database
| Date: | 12 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Reitze Gouma gave a presentation on the occasion of the launch of the FAO's new agricultural productivity database, indicating how incorporating measurement lessons from EU KLEMS would be beneficial.
Paper accepted on African inequality trends
| Date: | 08 November 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
The paper ‘Long term trends in economic inequality: Lessons from colonial Botswana 1921–1974’ written by Jutta Bolt and Ellen Hillbom (Lund University) has been accepted for publication in the Economic History Review. The show a rise and subsequent decline...
Value chain specialisation in Sweden
| Date: | 30 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries completed a consultancy report on ‘Global Value Chain Specialization Patterns of Sweden and Its Key Competitors’ for Tillväxtanalys (Stockholm, Sweden). The analysis shows that Austria and the Netherlands are emerging as key competitors...
Alternative poverty measurement
| Date: | 30 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Robert Inklaar presented research-in-progress with Jutta Bolt at a World Bank meeting. The main question is whether the World Bank's approach to measuring global poverty does adequate justice to cross-country differences and whether a new method for...
El Pais on value chains
| Date: | 25 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
El Pais reports on the changing structure of world trade using data from the World Input-Output Database (in Spanish).
Emissions growth has domestic roots
| Date: | 15 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries published new research with Benno Ferrarini of the Asian Development Bank where they account for the growth of carbon dioxide emissions due to changes in consumption, technology and global supply chain trade, see here. While emerging...
China-EU seminar on structural change
| Date: | 05 October 2015 |
| Author: | Robert Inklaar |
Gaaitzen de Vries participated in an expert seminar organised by the European Commission's DG EMPL and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) on structural change.