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Comparative advantage of selected agriculture products in Iran: a revealed comparative advantage assessment [PDF]
Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2012 The paper is an examination of Balassa’s ‘revealed comparative advantage’ (RCA). The results of researches show that when using the RCA, it should always be attuned in such a way, that it becomes symmetric.This paper consists of three major parts i.e ...
Bakhshinejad Mahmood, Hassanzadeh Ali
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Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in Pear
International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2012 This article focuses on the study of the comparative advantages and competitiveness in the global pear market. First, it will outline a clear distinction between these two concepts, followed by analysis. This paper provides a new index of competitiveness
Jaime de Pablo Valenciano +2 more
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REVEALED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE OF MOLDOVA’S LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2017 The paper aimed to present the analysis of the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) of Moldova’s livestock products. The research was carried out based on the statistical data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics, as well as data collected from ...
Anatolie IGNAT +2 more
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A New Class of Revealed Comparative Advantage Indexes [PDF]
Open Economies Review, 2021 AbstractThis paper draws upon a critical analysis of the three RCA indexes in Vollrath (1991) to propose a new class of RCA indexes. The baseline RCA index in this new class rests on the overall structure of trade, is symmetric, avoids size bias and is compatible with the Kunimoto-Vollrath principle. Possible modifications of the baseline RCA index are
Jenny P. Danna-Buitrago, Rémi Stellian
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Revealing comparative advantages in the backbone of science [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Computational scientometrics: theory & applications - CompSci '13, 2013 In 2013 Computational Scientometrics Workshop, October 28, 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, co-located with CIKM ...
Miguel Guevara 0002, Marcelo Mendoza
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The Revealed Comparative Advantage of Swaziland [PDF]
Greener Journal of Economics and Accountancy, 2013 The authors investigate the revealed comparative advantage of Swaziland. They investigate whether or not Swaziland has comparative advantage in the products it exports to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) and the rest of the world.
Karambakuwa, Roseline, Mzumara, Macleans
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Revealed Comparative Advantage and Specialisation in Athletics [PDF]
, 2012 Sport - in particular high-performance sport - is a fascination that is used as a platform for societal concerns. This is the base for different interests in active and passive sports and the state's interest in top-class sport. In most countries, top-class sport is a national concern: states train their athletes in national training centres, support ...
Cindy Du Bois, Bruno Heyndels
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Bangladesh Trade with India: Trends and Patterns [PDF]
Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2019 Bangladesh has a large and persistent trade deficit with its neighboring country India over the years. This paper explored the trends and patterns of trade between these two countries using both aggregated and disaggregated data.
Anisul M. Islam
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The competitiveness of Zimbabwe’s exports to South Africa during the recovery period 2009 to 2011
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013 This article analyses the competitiveness of Zimbabwe’s exports in the South African market under the multiple currency system from 2009 to 2011. Using real exchange rate analysis and the Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage index (RSCA), the article
Willie Nakunyada, Laurine Chikoko
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Revealed Comparative Advantage: What Is It Good For? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 This paper utilizes a many-country, many-product Ricardian trade model to evaluate the usefulness of measures of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in academic and policy analyses. I find that, while commonly used indexes are generally not consistent with theoretical notions of comparative advantage, certain indexes can be usefully employed for ...
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