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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Comparative Advantage"”.
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Extended producer responsibility and comparative advantage
Extended producer responsibility is a business strategy whereby a firm assumes responsibility for the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire lifecycle. By taking such responsibility, a firm realizes an incentive to design environmentally preferable products that are easier to …
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Assessing Comparative Advantage in Soybean Production: A Global Perspective
… production responses in a world context, where comparative advantage changes and their impacts can be properly addressed. Econometric and mathematical programming methods are used here to construct a soybean global model based on the established trade theory. Results indicate that although …
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Comparative Advantage: Creating Cooperation Between NATO and the European Union
… formula proposed is based on each organization's comparative advantage in capabilities and geographical concentration. By emphasizing the distinct advantages of NATO and the European Union, this study highlights how combining the capabilities provides a more effective cooperation. This study …
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Steel, Trade, and Development: A Comparative Advantage Analysis With Special Reference to the Case of Brazil
… forces that have been gradually shifting comparative advantage in steel production in favor of less developed countries (LDCs) in the post-World War II era. The basic research question is whether Brazil, one of the leading steel producers in the Periphery, had already achieved comparative …
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Analysis of Tanzania's Export Performance within Integration Blocks: a Revealed Comparative Advantage and Market Share Analysis Case Study of SADC.
… African Development Community(SADC). A Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and Market Share Analysis for selected eight commodities were conducted. The RCA analysis was done based on the Balassa's Index which was developed in 1965. Export Data were obtained from the International Trade Centre …
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Is cost competitiveness a prerequisite for growth? : application of the theory of comparative advantage in understanding developing countries' export growth in Asia
The theory of comparative advantage argues that countries benefit from trade even without cost competitiveness and that what matters is the difference between efficiencies at which a country can produce different goods and services within its economy. In reality, however, a significant proportion …
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Exportações paraibanas entre 2000 e 2013: estudo de determinantes de vantagens comparativas relevadas
… growth of a region. This work aims identify the comparative advantage from Paraíba trade during the year of 2000 untill 2013. The specific aim is to develop an econometric model for determination of advantages gotten by State, and study the currency impact and external trade income in Paraíba. …
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Korean industrialization: Competing hypotheses
… Korea followed the neoclassical path of static comparative advantage or did Korea anticipate comparative advantage? We will attempt to answer this question through three essays.
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Three Essays on the East Asian Miracle of Thailand
… very quickly. By calculating the ""revealed"" comparative advantage index (RCA) introduced by Balassa in 1965, RCAs of manufacturing indicate that mostly labor-intensive manufactured products have dominated the manufactured exports of Thailand. Although there was a tendency that the pattern of …
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Human Capital in Appalachia: An Analysis of Vulnerability, Resilience, and Skills in Preparation of a Greener Economy
… thesis constructs a novel resilience index and a comparative advantage measure of professional skills to enhance our understanding of economic resilience in Appalachian counties that are vulnerable to the transition to a greener economy. The index-based results indicate that resilience is …
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The sustainability of agriculture as a development tool in Namibia
… it is evident that Namibia does not have a comparative advantage in agricultural production and therefore should not promote agriculture as a means to achieve development. While the agricultural sector is already a significant employer in Namibia, there is limited scope for expansion of the …
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The application of A. Maizels' expost formulation of the Chenery-Strout growth model to Peru
… suggesting that in accordance with the theory of comparative advantage, an underdeveloped country should expand its production of export good or goods in which it possesses a comparative advantage, as a means of improving its balance of payments position and moving towards sustained economic …
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Financialisation and economic growth in Africa
… sector. This study examines the revealed comparative advantages of 34 developing African countries from the period 2008 to 2017 and goes further to determine the impact of the revealed comparative advantage indices on economic growth. Revealed comparative advantage is used as an …
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Trade liberalization and the structure of production in Tanzania
… as documented in the traditional theories of comparative advantage, the problem with Tanzanian agriculture is not related to the land size but low productivity. Interestingly, these results are also replicated in the Ugandan case. The cointegration analysis shows that the share of trade to GDP …
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Importance of Agriculture in the Development Process: an Agricultural Model for Tunisia
… use of the available potential and deriving the comparative advantage that best serves the welfare of the community.
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On the causes and consequences of occupational mobility
… manual, and interactive skills, which creates comparative advantage in certain occupations. I estimate this model and show that most of the wage gains for young workers following an occupational transition are due to improved matching of worker skill with occupation tasks, and not simply …
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Adaptation and survival in government agencies : the case of western economic diversification Canada
… government officials. It has been aided by its comparative advantage as an advocate for western Canada and by its small size.
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International Trade in Selected Processed Foods and Beverages (Beef, Beer, Economic, Marketing Theory, Distribution)
… from the following seven theories: absolute and comparative advantage, factor endowment, scale economy, preference similarity, trade barriers and marketing channels. They were explained, their empirical findings discussed, and hypotheses of international trade patterns anticipated on the basis of …
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Peacemaking in Africa : - a critical analysis of the relationship between the African Union and African sub-regional organizations in recent peacemaking initiatives
… principles of 'subsidiarity, complementarity and comparative advantage,' as laid out in the Memorandum of Understanding between the AU and the subregional organizations, are being applied in this decision making. The recent example cases of Zimbabwe, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire are specifically …
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Effective people performance strategies : critical ingredients for business success in Barbados and Eastern Caribbean business enterprises.
… are being encouraged in seeking to gain comparative advantage by reliance on their human resources because this aspect of business is arguably more difficult to imitate or understand than the more conventional resources. As a result, there is an awakening of the need to introduce …
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