TradeCAN 2005: Trade & the Competitiveness of Nations

Reviewed by: Rajesh Chadha, Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India
Review posted 11 October 2006
Review No. 89

CD-ROM Information

Content: TradeCAN is a useful set of two CD-ROMs configured to analyze international, national, and regional competitiveness in commodities and manufactured exports. It allows users to calculate market shares for each three or four digit Standard International Trade Classification (STIC) export for 1985-2002 and record changes in market share and structure.
Publication Date: 1 January 2006
Audience: TradeCAN is a research tool for analyzing competitiveness of countries in merchandise trade. It is a useful tool for academic research as well as policy perspective. The likely users include students, academic researchers, government departments including the ministries of finance, commerce, trade and external affairs, trade negotiators both at multilateral level within the World Trade Organization and at bilateral and multilateral levels, the chambers of commerce and industry, and individual exporters and importers.
Producer: World Bank
Size: 2 CD-ROMs 1104MB
Price: US$395/ Developing country discounts available.
Manual needed: A hard copy "Users Guide" is included. It is also available in electronic format once the program has been installed. An "Exercises Guide" is available electronically. Both are required to effectively use the CD-ROMs.
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Review Summary

TradeCAN is a global trade database system with added value in the form of a toolbox for analysis. The data has been sourced from the Standard International Trade Classification Revision-2 (SITC Rev-2) of COMTRADE, which is the official trade database of the United Nations Statistical Office. The useful feature of this CD-ROM is its ability to generate quick and powerful analytic reports of trade competitiveness.

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