The authors investigated whether Mauritius has comparative advantage in the products it exports in intra-SADC, intra-COMESA and global markets. There is a need for Mauritius to improve its competitiveness through a combination of both regional and national strategies via increasing investment in infrastructural development, promotion of intra-regional trade and integration, improving capacity building, liberalization of the labour market and facilitating the access to banking resources. The results showed that Mauritius has a revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index of ≥1 in 529 product codes. The highest RCA index of 1694.21 was found in live primates.
The authors analysed comparative advantage of Canada, Mexico and the United States in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The authors found that there is empirical evidence as expected that the United States of America has a large number of products in which it has a comparative advantage in, followed by Canada. Mexico is the least competitive with fewer products compared to the United States of America and Canada. The authors have also concluded that having comparative advantage is not synonymous with trade performance in intra-regional trade as Mexico tends to benefit much more in spite of having a very few products in which it has comparative advantage as demonstrated by huge trade surpluses over Canada and the United States
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