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Trade Facilitation Indicators: Hard and Soft Infrastructure 2004-2007

Albania, United Arab Emirates, Argentina...and 110 more, 2004 - 2007
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Reference ID
WLD_2007_TFI_v01_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/tp5f-zg09
Producer(s)
Luis Alberto Portugal Perez and John S. Wilson
Collection(s)
Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Apr 11, 2011
Last modified
Jun 13, 2022
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  • Study Description
  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
WLD_2007_TFI_v01_M
Title
Trade Facilitation Indicators: Hard and Soft Infrastructure 2004-2007
Country/Economy
Name Country code
Albania ALB
United Arab Emirates ARE
Argentina ARG
Armenia ARM
Australia AUS
Austria AUT
Azerbaijan AZE
Belgium BEL
Benin BEN
Bulgaria BGR
Bahrain BHR
Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH
Bolivia BOL
Brazil BRA
Botswana BWA
Canada CAN
Switzerland CHE
Chile CHL
China CHN
Cameroon CMR
Colombia COL
Costa Rica CRI
Czech Republic CZE
Germany DEU
Denmark DNK
Dominican Republic DOM
Algeria DZA
Ecuador ECU
Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
Spain ESP
Estonia EST
Ethiopia ETH
Finland FIN
France FRA
United Kingdom GBR
Georgia GEO
Ghana GHA
Gambia, The GMB
Gambia, The GMB
Greece GRC
Guatemala GTM
Guyana GUY
Hong Kong SAR, China HKG
Honduras HND
Croatia HRV
Hungary HUN
Indonesia IDN
India IND
Ireland IRL
Iceland ISL
Israel ISR
Italy ITA
Jamaica JAM
Jordan JOR
Japan JPN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kenya KEN
Kyrgyz Republic KGZ
Cambodia KHM
Korea, Rep. KOR
Kuwait KWT
Sri Lanka LKA
Lithuania LTU
Luxembourg LUX
Latvia LVA
Morocco MAR
Moldova MDA
Madagascar MDG
Mexico MEX
Mali MLI
Mongolia MNG
Mozambique MOZ
Mauritius MUS
Malawi MWI
Malaysia MYS
Namibia NAM
Nigeria NGA
Nicaragua NIC
Netherlands NLD
Norway NOR
New Zealand NZL
Pakistan PAK
Panama PAN
Peru PER
Philippines PHL
Poland POL
Portugal PRT
Paraguay PRY
Qatar QAT
Romania ROU
Russian Federation RUS
Singapore SGP
El Salvador SLV
Serbia SRB
Slovak Republic SVK
Slovenia SVN
Sweden SWE
Chad TCD
Thailand THA
Trinidad and Tobago TTO
Tunisia TUN
Turkiye TUR
Tanzania TZA
Uganda UGA
Ukraine UKR
Uruguay URY
United States USA
Venezuela, RB VEN
Vietnam VNM
South Africa ZAF
Zambia ZMB
Zimbabwe ZWE
Serbia and Montenegro SCG
Study type
Macroeconomics - Indicators
Kind of Data
Aggregate data [agg]

Version

Version Description
Four new indicators, covering 112 countries over the 2004-2007 period, are estimated to show that trade facilitation reforms do improve the export performance of developing countries. The database contains four new indicators related to trade facilitation covering 112 countries over the 2004-2007. The indicators are scaled on a range of 0 (lowest performer) to 1 (top performer) and are obtained using factor analysis using 20 indicators of different sources: Doing Business, World Economic Forum, World Development Indicators and Transparency International.
They are grouped along two dimensions:

Hard infrastructure:

*Physical infrastructure measures the level of development and quality of ports, airports, roads, and rail infrastructure.
*Information and communications technology (ICT) is interpreted as the extent to which an economy uses information and communications technology to improve efficiency, and productivity as well as to reduce transaction costs. It contains indicators on the availability, use, absorption, and government prioritization of ICT.

Soft Infrastructure:

*Border and transport efficiency aims at quantifying the level of efficiency of customs and domestic transport that is reflected in the time, cost, and number of documents necessary for export and import procedures.
*Business and regulatory environment measures the level of development of regulations and transparency. It is built on indicators of irregular payments, favoritism, government transparency, and measures to combat corruption.
For a more detailed description of the methodology, please refer to the research paper by Portugal-Perez & Wilson (2010).

Scope

Notes
The dataset includes the following indicators:
- Physical infrastructure
- ICT
- Business environment
- Border & transport efficiency

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Luis Alberto Portugal Perez and John S. Wilson World Bank

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2004 2007
Data Collection Mode
Other [oth]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Development Research Group World Bank research@worldbank.org Link
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download

Example:

Luis Alberto Portugal Perez and John S. Wilson, World Bank. Trade Facilitation Indicators: Hard and Soft Infrastructure (TFI) 2004-2007. Ref. WLD_2007_TFI_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://microdata.worldbank.org on [date]

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_WLD_2007_TFI_v02_M
Date of Metadata Production
2011-01-27
DDI Document version
DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/21/21)
This version is identical to DDI_WLD_2007_TFI_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.

Version 01 (January 2011)
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