This study seeks to identify commodities and sectors of comparative advantage between Nigeria and China and to determine the extent to which Nigeria's export matches with China's import demand. Applying the Revealed Sectorial Comparative Advantage Index and the Trade Complementarity index on...

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...

Evolving of trade specialization is usually a longlasting process resulting from deep structural changes of an economy. In some cases external stimuli such as broader market that resulted from trade liberalization could contribute to a rapid changing of a country's trade pattern. Although trade...

This study investigates Pakistan's trading competitiveness over her trading partners using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) Index, proposed by Balassa (1965). The study aims to determine competitive position of Pakistan vis-à-vis to eight Asian economies and nine European economies in some...

Economic trade relations between Kazakhstan and the EU are becoming increasingly important, and much of this economic success is due to its rich energy resources and the government's efforts in restructuring its centrally planned economy towards a more free-market based economy. In spite of...

Using bilateral trade data for 16 service categories, this paper examines the patterns, evolution, and determinants of comparative advantage (CA) in U.S. services trade with China and India from 1992 to 2010. The results indicate that the U.S. has a CA in most services, except in more...