MEASUREMENT OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE IN AGRICULTURAL FOOD PRODUCTS: THE CASE OF TURKEY

Abstract

Author(s): Dilek ŞAHİN

The concept of competitiveness has become more important in globalized world. Competitiveness shows a country’s share in world trade of goods and services. Competitiveness is divided into three as company, industry and country levels. It has been investigated price and non-price factors as determinants of competitiveness. The main object of this study is to examine the competitiveness of the agricultural food products in Turkey over 2000-2014. Revealed Comparative Advantage Index, Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage Index and Trade Balanca Index is used in this study. Furhermore we create the product mapping of the sectors which are analyzed in the study. As a result, it was found to be low competitiveness in agricultural food products.

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