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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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World Bank

[TRADE] DATA VISUALIZER [22 November 2010]

http://devdata.worldbank.org/TradeVisualizer/

Go to DATA SELECTION in left margin to find variables and countries

NEW DATA VISUALIZERS for TRADE DATA [22 November 2010]

http://data.worldbank.org/news/new-data-visualizers-for-trade-data

n September 2010, the World Bank launched the new web-based World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) system. The WITS software has been developed by the World Bank, in close collaboration and consultation with various international organizations, including United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), International Trade Center (ITC), United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), and World Trade Organization (WTO). The new WITS does not require any installation and can be accessed from http://wits.worldbank.org/WITS

WITS is a trade software tool giving access to bilateral trade data between countries based on various product classifications, product details, years, and trade flows. It also contains tariff and non-tariff measures as well as an analysis tool to calculate the effects of tariff reductions. In addition, users can view their data using bubble charts and the map visualizer. “Bubble charts” display data in four dimensions. In each chart, the size of the country circle represents a volume measure, such as population or GDP. The position of the bubbles is determined by the indicators selected for the horizontal and vertical axes. The “map visualizer” animates the export and import trade data from the UNSD COMTRADE database by commodity and partner country from 1988-2008.

EXAMPLE FOLLOWS....

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