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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
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Apr 11, 2011
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  • 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
    Viet Nam VNM
    South Africa ZAF
    Zambia ZMB
    Zimbabwe ZWE
    Serbia and Montenegro SCG
    Study type

    Macroeconomics - Indicators

    Other identifiers
    Type Identifier
    DOI https://doi.org/10.48529/tp5f-zg09
    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 Access

    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.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Development Research Group World Bank research@worldbank.org http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_WLD_2007_TFI_v02_M

    Date of Metadata Production

    2011-01-27

    Metadata version

    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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