Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries are among global leaders in production exports of agricultural fisheries commodities, accounting for 15% world’s average agri-food export from 1995 to 2019. With rising market competitiveness, considering sector, it is important assess if region can compete against other rivals, what products. Accounting regional potential economic power, remarkab...

The expansion of transportation and high-speed communication networks throughout the world has increased the export opportunities of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) producers. It has also increased competition for the region's producers by helping companies in other countries and regions export to world markets as well. Countries in the MENA region occupy a place midway up the ladder of com...

Developing and newly industrialized countries that have experienced the sharpest increases in wage inequality are those whose export shares have shifted towards more skill-intensive goods. We argue that this can be explained by technological catch-up. We develop this insight using a model that features both Ricardian and endowments-based comparative advantage. In this model, Southern catch-up c...

We show that deviations from the law of one price in tradable goods are an important source of violations of absolute PPP across countries. Using highly disaggregated export data, we document systematic international price discrimination: at the U.S. dock, U.S. exporters ship the same good to low-income countries at lower prices. This pricing-to-market is about twice as important as any local n...

one of the specific aspects of our time is the existence of world trade organization as an important international center. this organization regulates the commercial laws among the countries, and tries to provide a suitable environment for trade by eliminating the subsidies using protection policies and making a better condition for competition. in order to achieve this objective, the economic ...

Indonesia ranks third in cassava (cassava) exporters global scale, after Thailand and Vietnam, more than 80% of is exported to China. The productivity tends increase, but the total volume exports decrease. This study focuses on describing condition timber export market trend producing countries then analyzes it comparatively compares with two other countries, namely Vietnam. data used 2014-2018...

In this paper, we aim to identify the intensity and nature of intra-industry specialisation in global trade citrus fruits. We used data from United Nations Comtrade database. performed both static dynamic assessments (IIT) by using traditional Grubel-Lloyd index marginal IIT (MIIT) index, respectively. also separated into horizontal vertical trade, verified relationship between changes pattern ...

food security has a dynamic notion during the time and may be affected by various domestic and global factors.nevertheless, iranian policy makers consider food security as same as self-sufficiency in agricultural food products, particularly wheat production. however, self-sufficiency can contribute to food security only if it is in coincidences with comparative advantage and sustainable resourc...