IMF Direction of Trade Statistics

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	international trade or finance data
Producer	International Monetary Fund
Coverage	1970-2000
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	2
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Mohamed and Finnoff (2004)	IMF Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) CD-ROM 2003	1980-2000	Mirror-trade comparison of South African reported trade with partners' data to estimate net trade misinvoicing, which is added to residual capital flight.
Rustomjee (1991)	IMF Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) Yearbooks, 1977, 1982, 1988	1970-1988	Compares South African-reported world trade with trading partners' reported trade to estimate export and import misinvoicing as capital flight.