The aim of the paper is to derive potential Korean exports to major African countries. Park (2001) adopted conventional RCA and MCA techniques to evaluate the relative performance of Korean exports to draw up a list of recommendable exports to Africa. We improve Park's results in two ways;...

Using a gravity-type explanation of international trade flows at the industry level, it is shown that the pattern of comparative advantage in terms of sectoral export/import ratios in bilateral trade can be explained by relative income and relative per capita income. Total income of a country is...

Using a gravity-type explanation of international trade flows at the industry level, it is shown that the pattern of comparative advantage in terms of sectoral export/import ratios in bilateral trade can be explained by relative income and relative per capita income. Total income of a country is...