[wdmmg-discuss] data on imports and exports?

Rufus Pollock rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Mon Feb 14 14:59:03 UTC 2011


On 9 February 2011 12:56, Tim Hubbard <timjph at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/09/uk-trade-deficit-hits-record
>
> is there a role a 'where-does-my-countries-money-go' to complement wdmmg -
> i.e. make it more transparent for individuals in a country to see what is
> exported, what is important and even suggest where there might be
> opportunities to start up new businesses within their countries?  Is such
> data available at a level of granularity that it might be useful?

This is a very interesting idea Tim and there is definitely data
available on deficits and money flows between different countries. If
we can dig it up I think this is something we could add to wdmmg.

Rufus




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