1. The 2018 Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer
- Author:
- Paul Holtom and Irene Pavesi
- Publication Date:
- 08-2018
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Small Arms Survey
- Abstract:
- The 2018 Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer (the Barometer) identifies the most and least transparent of 49 major small arms exporters, based on their reporting of their arms-trading activities undertaken in 2015.1 For the first time the Barometer assesses Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and UN Programme of Action on small arms (PoA) reports to determine small arms exporters’ levels of transparency. These sources provide new information for the Barometer’s assessment of national transfer control systems, while ATT annual reports on arms exports reveal new data compared to national arms export reports; United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) data, and the UN Register of Conventional Arms (UN Register). Despite the increase in reports containing information on national transfer control systems and small arms exports assessed by the Barometer, no major exporter received full marks for transparency.
- Topic:
- International Security, International Affairs, and Arms Trade
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus