Webinar on Measurement of the digital economy and trade in Latin America and the Caribbean
UN ECLAC, in collaboration with the IMF’s Statistics Department and UNCTAD. Context: The pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of Latin America’s economy and trade. This region has been among the fastest growers of e-commerce worldwide, albeit at low levels, while exports and imports of digitally enabled services have also expanded. These trends and transformations pose serious measurement challenges, hindering policy formulation, monitoring, and evaluation. In this context, this webinar addresses conceptual and practical aspects related to measuring the digital economy and trade…