Intra-Industry Trade of Arab Countries: An Indicator of Potential Competitiveness

Kunzel, Peter; Havrylyshyn, Oleh

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“…Exporter and Importer's GDP: The per capita influence of GDP reflects a country's economic growth and the effectiveness of trade integration. This means a higher GDP will most definitely have a favourable impact on economic growth (Oleh & Peter 1997). According to the fixed effects results presented in Table 2, the elasticities of the traditional gravity model variables, domestic (GPD i ), partner (GPD j ) and distance between trading partners (DIST ij ) yielded their expected signs and are statistically significant as expected (Hatab, Romstad & Huo 2010).…”

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Determinants of South African agricultural exports to African markets

Seti

2023

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

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Orientation:The 'Africa we want, 2063 Agenda' is slowly becoming a reality. On 01 January 2021, business operations of the African continental free trade area officially took off. Member states are currently negotiating concessions and are in the process of fully eliminating trade barriers to allow duty-free access into their markets. Research purpose:The purpose of this study is to clearly identify constraints that could potentially jeopardise the long-run success of the free trade area by exploring the fundamental constraints limiting increased intra-African agricultural trade.Motivation for the study: Results of the study will help South Africa to better leverage the African free trade area and take advantage of export market opportunities.Research approach/design and method: Using panel data that span from 2000 to 2021, the study estimated an augmented gravity model to evaluate the influence of selected explanatory variables on South African agricultural exports to African markets. Main findings:The results of the fixed effect model revealed that South African agricultural exports are directly proportional to gross domestic product (of both the importer and exporter) and inversely proportional to geographic distance. The results also showed that dummy variables such as infrastructure and participating in the same regional bloc play an important role in exacerbating export-led growth.Practical/managerial implications: In practice, when structural policies are put in place to address issues such as infrastructure development, countries will experience increased export participation. Contribution/value-add:The study seeks to contribute to knowledge by identifying the main determinants of greater intra-African trade.

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Determinants of South African agricultural exports to African markets

Seti

2023

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

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“…Nevertheless, the potential of the PAFTA agreements can be qualified as limited because of the small share of Intra-Arab trade in the total trade of member countries, the low share of intra-industry trade in the total Intra-Arab trade (as computed by Havrylyshyn and Kunzel, 1997), and the relative similarity of the main export products.…”

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The Reforms Needed to Attract More FDI in Egypt: Lessons from the CEEC Experience

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Bakardzhieva

2002

SSRN Journal

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“…Intra-industry trade (IIT) indices are calculated following Grubel and Lloyd (1975), and the aggregation method proposed in Havrylyshyn and Kunzel (1997) 7 . Interpretation of the IIT is as follows: with no intra-industry trade, the IIT index will be zero, and when all trade is intra-industry trade, it will take a value of one.…”

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“…According to Havrylyshyn and Kunzel (1997) IIT indices 3 for Arab countries are lower than those for countries with recently established regional trade arrangements such as NAFTA, APEC and MERCOSUR (which has similar per capita incomes). Nevertheless, computed data for Arab countries show rapidly increasing levels of intra-industry trade relative to a decade ago.…”

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“…In this paper, Grubel-Lloyd indices for intra-industry trade are computed for each sector and summed over nonoil sectors using the following aggregation index: Sn (Xj+Mj)-Sn|Xj-Mj| ¸Sn (Xj+Mj). For a more complete discussion, see Havrylyshyn and Kunzel (1997). The aggregation measure used here has been criticised as being biased downward by the degree of trade imbalance, so that the larger the trade imbalance, the larger the net trade and the smaller the IIT index.…”

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Towards Arab and Euro-Med Regional Integration

2001

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Intra-Industry Trade of Arab Countries: An Indicator of Potential Competitiveness

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Determinants of South African agricultural exports to African markets

Determinants of South African agricultural exports to African markets

The Reforms Needed to Attract More FDI in Egypt: Lessons from the CEEC Experience

Towards Arab and Euro-Med Regional Integration

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