Identifying Indonesia-Uruguay Bilateral Trade Opportunities:A Revealed Comparative Advantage Approach [PDF]
This paper attempts to identify and analyze the Indonesia-Uruguay bilateral trade opportunities based on their respective export competitiveness. The analysis uses the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index for year 2012 obtained from World Integrated ...
Sabaruddin, A. S. (A) +1 more
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Competitiveness Analysis of Olive Oil Sector
Aim of the study to analyse the competitiveness of Turkish olive oil sector. For this purpose, leading countries was selected according to their shares in the world olive oil export and evaluated with Revealed Comparative Advantage and Vollrath indexes ...
Eylem Durmuş, Sertaç Dokuzlu
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Evaluating Africa’s comparative advantage in travel service exports [PDF]
This paper tests the hypothesis that African countries reveal a comparative advantage in travel service exports empirically. The UNCTAD 2007 Handbook of Statistics (2008) is used to calculate revealed comparative advantage for 186 countries over 10 ...
Johan Fourie
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Trade Performance of Fruit and Vegetable Industry in Selected ASEAN Countries [PDF]
This paper examines the trade performance for thirteen commodities in the fruit and vegetable industry in relation to that of selected ASEAN countries (Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand), based on Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA ...
Emmy, F.A., Mohd Mansor, Ismail
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What do alternative measures of comparative advantage reveal about the composition of developing countries'exports? [PDF]
Despite their extensive applications in research and policy studies, no product level comparisons had been made between Bela Balassa's"revealed"comparative advantage (RCA) index and indices associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER ...
Yeats, Alexander J.
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Consistency tests of comparative advantage measures: an empirical evidence from the Malaysian and selected Asian shrimp products [PDF]
The aim of this study is to examine the consistency between the Balassa index and Vollrath indices in measuring comparative advantages of the Malaysian shrimp products with other major shrimp exporting nations as comparator.
Ahmad Sidique, Shaufique Fahmi +2 more
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The comparative advantage of South Africa soybean production
The effect of trade policy on the South African soybean industry is analyzed by using 4 digits Standard International Trade Classification of soybean (1201) data of 1996–2011. The Revealed comparative advantage (RCA), Hirschman index,
Bahta Yonas T., Willemse Johan
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Comparative Advantage: Theory, Empirical Measures And Case Studies [PDF]
This paper consists of three main parts i.e. theory, analytical tool and case studies of comparative advantage. Firstly, we review the theory and various empirical measures of comparative advantage. We would argue that for the catching-up economies, like
Tri WIDODO
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Competitiveness and Exports Sustainability of the Indonesian Natural Rubber
This paper examines Indonesian competitiveness in export of natural rubber commodities by employing set of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) and Export competitive index (ECI) with respect to global trade.
Rumbiati Kamaludin
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ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to contribute to the improvement of a more comprehensive approach to international competitiveness, from the attempt to construct a revealed comparative advantages index that considers not only the participation of economies in the world market from the perspective of exports, but also the importance of value ...
TATIANA MASSAROLI DE MELO +1 more
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