Meat export competitiveness of European Union countries on global markets

Agri-Food Export Competitiveness in European Union Countries

This article investigates the competitiveness of agri-food exports of the European Union (EU27) countries on global markets, using the revealed comparative advantage (B) index over the 2000–2011 period. Panel unit root tests, mobility index and the Kaplan-Meier survival rates of the B index are used. The majority of agri-food products in the EU-27 countries show a comparative disadvantage on gl...

Pakistan’s Export Competitiveness in Global Markets

(1) Why should Pakistan integrate itself into global markets? Why can’t we rely on our own domestic market of 145 million people? (2) If we decide to integrate, this will involve opening up our economy to products from other countries and deprotect our industry. Won’t this lead to de-industrialization of Pakistan? (3) Pakistan has a weak, narrow and inefficient industrial base. How can our indu...

iranian pistachio export competitiveness in world markets

in the present study, competitiveness of iranian pistachio exports and competitor countries in  the world market are studied. pistachio export advantage using indices of revealed comparative advantage (rca) approach and vector error correction model(vecm) based on  agricultural and non-petroleum export commodity basket were investigated separately. the results showed that iran has a comparative...

Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

This paper examines the impact of the revocation of tariff exemptions on exports of developing countries using data from cases of the Competitive Needs Limits (CNL), a feature of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on “super competitive” GSP beneficiaries and aim to reserve the GSP benefits for other “less competitive” GSP eligible countries. The empirical ...

Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries ?