Relative comparative advantage is measured by contrasting country ratios of the domestic resource costs per unit of foreign exchange earned by exporting coffee to the exchange rate. Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania have strong relative comparative advantages in coffee visa-vis the Ivory Coast, largely because of higher opportunity costs of Ivoirian factors.
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