Revealed Comparative Advantage Analysis for Kuwait India Trade

Revealed Comparative Advantage (rca) and Trade Complementarity between India-asean Trade: a Study with Reference to Fisheries Sector

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...

Trade, Development, and Poverty-Induced Comparative Advantage

This paper deals with the relation between trade and development when poverty affects individual decision making. We develop a twosector model that links production and schooling decisions under poverty with standard neo-classical trade analyses. The decision to either work or acquire skills depends on households having reached subsistence levels of income, implying that the income level of a c...

Support for trade restrictions, attitudes, and understanding of comparative advantage

We asked respondents about their attitudes toward restriction of imports, their understanding of the principle of comparative advantage and their attitudes toward globalization and business. Respondents who favored import restrictions scored lower on the test of understanding of comparative advantage, and they had less favorable attitudes toward globalization and toward business. Import restric...

Trade-Led Growth in India and China: A Comparative Analysis

The trade-led growth theory has received considerable attention over the decades with vast amount of literature devoted to analyse it empirically particularly in case of exportled growth hypothesis. India & China are two large Asian countries experiencing rapid growth during recent decades. For years, India’s economic growth rate ranked second among the world’s large economies, after China, whi...