- Analyse the relationship between industry and manufacturing sector. What does the data tell us about Brazil’s economy
- Terms of Trade – Collect
For the Commodity, or Net Barter, Terms of Trade: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TT.PRI.MRCH.XD.WD
Scroll down to find the data for your country.
For Exports as a Capacity to Import (aka Income Terms of Trade): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.EXP.CAPM.KN
Overall Analysis
- Use these three IMF working paper to support and provide more in-depth economic analysis.
- Use Brazil Trade policy report on World Trade Organisation
- https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Commodity‐Terms‐of‐Trade‐TheHistory‐of‐Booms‐and‐Busts‐23307
- https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Do‐Unit‐Value‐Export‐Import‐andTerms‐of‐Trade‐Indices‐Represent‐or‐Misrepresent‐Price‐20943
- https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2017/02/13/Terms‐of‐Trade‐Cycles‐and‐External‐Adjustment‐44655
Key literature for Trade Section
- Grancay, M., Grancay, N. and Dudas, T. (2015) What you Export Matters: does it really? Contemporary Economics, 9, 233-244.