PROGNOZ 5 Applications
VITAL
VITAL will help you to identify international trade opportunities and vulnerabilities using a comprehensive dataset, advanced analytic indicators and extensive display capabilities.
You can retrieve data from the Un Commodity Trade Statistics Database in up to six dimensions through your choices of:
- reporter (250 countries)
- partner (300 countries or other areas)
- flow (exports, imports, re-exports, re-imports, trade balance, or total trade)
- commodity (in any of the standard classifiacation systems)
- measure (value, weight, quantity or unit price)
- time (annual since 1962)
VITAL enables you to request agregates, distribution, growth rates, as well as indicators of:
- a reporter's export competitiveness/import concentration by partner/commodity
- weighted-average world growth for a reporter's export/import partners/commodities
- a reporter's export/import concentration/diversification by partner/commodities, via measures of the similarity between distributions
- a reporter's export/import concentration/diversification by partner/commodities, via Herfindahl indices
- customs duty evasion via PROGNOZ 5 model of discrepancies between a country reported imports and its trading partners' reported exports
- trade-based money laundering/transfer pricing abuses, via our model of variationin the reported unit prices of similar goods across countries
- any additional concept you specify