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Competitiveness of Major Rice Exporting Nations


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The present study analyses the impact of WTO on rice export competitiveness by using Blassa's Revealed Comparative Advantage Index and White's Revealed Competitive Advantage Index in respect of Agricultural Trade and Merchandise Trade in the changing scenario of liberalization, privatization and globalization. A new technique has also been developed for the measurement of competitiveness ranking on the basis of the dictum that competitiveness is a zero sum game. The study concludes that the increasing competitiveness of Indian and Pakistani rice exports is a result of WTO implementation.
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S. C. Davar
Department of Commerce, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India
Bhupinder Singh
Department of Commerce, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

Abstract


The present study analyses the impact of WTO on rice export competitiveness by using Blassa's Revealed Comparative Advantage Index and White's Revealed Competitive Advantage Index in respect of Agricultural Trade and Merchandise Trade in the changing scenario of liberalization, privatization and globalization. A new technique has also been developed for the measurement of competitiveness ranking on the basis of the dictum that competitiveness is a zero sum game. The study concludes that the increasing competitiveness of Indian and Pakistani rice exports is a result of WTO implementation.

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