Relative export competitiveness of agricultural commodities and its determinants: Some evidence from India

Narayan, Seema; Bhattacharya, Poulomi

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.013

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“…Regarding the relationship between consumer price index and agricultural export, some studies (Gururaj et al, 2016;Narayan & Bhattacharya, 2019) found negative and significant relationship. In addition, some studies found a positive and significant association between institutional quality and agricultural exports (Bekele & Mersha, 2019;Gebrehiwot & Gebru, 2015;Sawore, 2015), while still other studies found a positive and significant relationship between infrastructure and agricultural export of developing countries infrastructure (Bereket, 2020;Kebede, 2017).…”

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“…Therefore, the difference in product prices is the cause of international trade as predicted by classical trade theories (Smith, 1776). More importantly, international trade would increase efficiency in resource allocation and boost world output and welfare through specialisation (Narayan, 2019). Recent experiences of some Asian countries revealed that swelling exports by specializing in highly productive agricultural products at the initial stage of economic development, then in labour-intensive products, and finally in capital intensive export products has paramount importance for changing comparative advantage and structural transformation in developing countries (Cheffo, 2020).…”

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Determinants of Ethiopian Agricultural Exports: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Eshetu

Mehare

2020

Review of Market Integration

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Although the share of developing countries in international trade has been growing over the last two decades, the share of Africa and Ethiopia in international trade has remained below 3 and 0.3 per cent, respectively. More importantly, despite the colossal effort that has been made by the Ethiopian government to remedy the problem of the export sector over the last two decades, the country has faced a twin deficit: trade deficit and fiscal deficit. As a result, the trade balance of Ethiopia has been worsening through time due to the widening gap between export and import values. Therefore, this study examined the determinants of Ethiopian agricultural exports using the imperfect substitutes’ model as a theoretical framework and system generalised moment method as an analytical model for the period 1998–2018. The regression result of the two-step system generalised moment method showed that gross domestic product, exchange rate, road network, corruption index of Ethiopia, lagged export value, indirect tax revenue and domestic saving are the major determinants of agricultural exports in Ethiopia. However, foreign direct investment and labour force are negatively and significantly related to Ethiopian agricultural exports. Hence, rapid economic growth, currency devaluation, encouraging domestic saving, reducing the tariff on export and better control of corruption would boost Ethiopian agricultural exports. Besides, controlling rapid population growth and directing foreign direct investment to the agricultural sector will also surge Ethiopian agricultural exports.

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Determinants of Ethiopian Agricultural Exports: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Eshetu

Mehare

2020

Review of Market Integration

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“…Furthermore, relative export competitiveness (REC) of India’s wheat and rice over the last 3 decades has increased over time but these are not as competitive as those of the top exporters of these commodities such as the US, Russia in wheat and Thailand in rice, and the relative export competitiveness deteriorated over time due to export restrictions, although WTO had a positive effect on India’s relative export competitiveness in rice and South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) adversely affected it in both rice and wheat. Interestingly, farm size had no effect on REC in both wheat and rice (Narayan & Bhattacharya, 2019).…”

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Examining Global Competitiveness of Indian Agribusiness in the Twenty-first-century Asian Context: Opportunities and Challenges

Singh

2019

Millennial Asia

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Indian agribusiness is being seen as an important arena for creation of employment and income for large sections of India’s rural and agrarian population in the coming years and decades by public agencies, nationally and globally. This is happening in the context of strong agribusiness sectors in the neighbouring countries of China and those in the South-East and East Asia. This article examines the global context of agribusiness competitiveness from an Indian perspective, including the global trade regime and focusses on a few key sectors like dairying, cereals, fruits and vegetables and identifies major factors in their export performance from a value chain perspective. It also examines key global trade policies at the World Trade Organization (WTO) level and Indian agribusiness policy domain to explore ways forward to focus on promising sectors with an appropriate policy and practice steps.

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“…Frequent changes in market structure and national sugar policy means that there is a need to examine the competitiveness of the sugar industry at the level of the individual firm. However, even though the sugar industry has been the focus of much attention (Autrey, Jolly, & de Périndorge, 2020; Narayan & Bhattacharya, 2019; Ray, 2012; Reddy, 2011; Sheetal & Kumar, 2019; Solomon, 2016), to the best of the authors' knowledge, the current literature on the industry still lacks any case‐based studies of the industry's competitiveness. In this study, we address this omission by applying Porter's diamond model of competitive advantage (Porter, 1990) to the North Indian sugar industry.…”

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A case‐based analysis of the competitiveness of the North Indian sugar industry

Sheetal¹,

Singh²,

Shashi³

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Glob Bus Org Exc

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The Indian sugar industry contributes 10% to the country's agricultural GDP, and is a significant part of India's manufacturing base. Although the industry has been the focus of much attention over the years, there remains a lack of case-based studies of its competitiveness. Using data from in-depth interviews with executives in five North Indian sugar companies, we address this gap by applying Porter's theories on competitive advantage, in combination with a technique known as analytic hierarchical process. This allows us to measure and evaluate the industry's competitiveness, and provides a detailed view of the factors that influence it. While this study focuses on the North Indian sugar industry, the techniques used could easily be adapted to the assessment of competitiveness in other sectors to guide practitioners' efforts to improve the competitive performance of their company.

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Relative export competitiveness of agricultural commodities and its determinants: Some evidence from India

Cited by 54 publications

References 38 publications

Determinants of Ethiopian Agricultural Exports: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Determinants of Ethiopian Agricultural Exports: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Examining Global Competitiveness of Indian Agribusiness in the Twenty-first-century Asian Context: Opportunities and Challenges

A case‐based analysis of the competitiveness of the North Indian sugar industry

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