Revealed Comparative Advantage of Ethiopian Leather Industry with Selected African Economies

Maternal occupation in the leather industry and selected congenital malformations.

OBJECTIVES Data from a hospital based case-control study were analysed to assess the relation between maternal occupation in the leather industry and several groups of congenital defects (nervous system, cardiac defects of closure, oral cleft, epispadia or hypospadia, and multiple anomalies). METHODS Cases and controls were selected from eight public hospitals in Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, ...

Overview of Ethiopian Textile Industry

Characterization of Leather Industry Wastes

In this research samples from solid wastes coming out from various process steps during manufacturing of garment sheep skins, shoe upper goat skins, shoe upper hides and sole leathers have been collected. These samples have been classified among themselves and their characteristics have been determined by various chemical analysis. By characterization of solid wastes which state problems for th...

Revealed Comparative Advantage: An Analysis of Exports of Rwanda

The paper undertakes a detailed analysis of Revealed Comparative Advantage of the exports of Rwanda. The objective of the research is to understand the Rwanda’s pattern of trade; to identify a change in this pattern over the period of study; in support of the policies and strategies, to identify areas for improvement. Rwanda is primarily an agrarian economy where people have been dependent on c...

Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in Hungarian Agri-food Sectors

This paper investigates the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture in relation to that of the EU employing four indices of revealed comparative advantage, for the period 1992 to 1998. Consistency tests implies that the indices are less satisfactory as cardinal measures, but are useful in identifying whether or not Hungary has a comparative advantage in a particular product group. The results ...