present study, compares iran's agricultural products competitiveness power with mena's countries during 1995-2011. for accomplishing mentioned goal, first, agricultural commodities export and import indices calculated for each one of twenty countries of mentioned region and then revealed comparative advantages index of agricultural commodities trade calculated. results showed that iran had comp...

Using firm-level data on the sales and sourcing patterns of Japanese affiliates, this paper suggests that very little foreign direct investment (FDI) falls neatly into the standard bins of horizontal, vertical and export-platform FDI. Most affiliates import some intermediates and export some output, suggesting a pattern that might be called “networked FDI.” This suggests that the nature of FDI ...

abstract almost, the traditional comparative advantage indices especially employment, value added and profitability are considered in all studies in the context of regional comparative advantage. while the study of comparative advantage, regardless of the sustainable development indices is a flawed study. therefore, in this study, in the first stage, iranian provinces are ranked according to em...

in this study, the comparative advantage of main agricultural products and its relation to cropping pattern was studied in ilam province. for data analyzing the comparative advantage and government policies effects indices, policy analysis matrix (pam) were used. the obtained results for the comparative advantage indices of domestic resource cost (drc), social cost benefit (scb) and net social ...

abstract:we define as south asian countries those countries that start with iran and end with bangladesh in asia. wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (rca) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “western” developed and eastasian countries. statistical methods such as multidimensional sca...