The working group on data for services, trade, and development policies has been established following the recommendations of the 9th Multi-Year Expert Meeting (MYEM) on Trade, Services and Development, held in July 2022. It aims to provide concrete and substantive inputs to this MYEM series, which examines the role of services trade in economic diversification. Specifically, the working group aims to identify services trade data gaps, share good practice examples of data collection, identify data sources, and showcase innovative ways to use existing data.

The objective of the fourth meeting is 1) to continue sharing best practices and experiences in data collection and use for trade-in services and 2) to present and discuss the preliminary draft of the Working Group's report.

The working group meeting is open to producers and users of statistics including, inter alia, representatives from ministries (e.g., finance, trade, economics), national statistical offices, central banks, international organisations, academia and civil society organizations.