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Competitiveness of ACP Sugar Exports in the Global Market

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  • Tebogo B. Seleka

    (Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis)

  • Thula S. Dlamini

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We employ the Normalized Revealed Comparative Advantage (NRCA) index to examine the competitiveness of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in the global sugar market. Results indicate that the majority of the ACP states had comparative advantage in the global sugar market during the period 1961-2013. However, most of these countries also experienced declining comparative advantage, except for a few African countries that emerged from initial states of extreme comparative disadvantage to marginal comparative (dis)advantage. This occurred despite the fact that these countries enjoyed tariff free access to the highly protected EU market. Mauritius, followed by Fiji, Guyana and Jamaica, recorded the strongest comparative advantage among the ACP countries. However, it recorded weaker comparative advantage than the leading comparator non-ACP countries of Australia, Brazil, and Thailand, which experienced considerable increases in comparative advantage over the considered period.

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  • Tebogo B. Seleka & Thula S. Dlamini, 2018. "Competitiveness of ACP Sugar Exports in the Global Market," Working Papers 55, Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis.
    • Handle: RePEc:bid:wpaper:55
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    1. Koliadenko, Svitlana & Andreichenko, Andrii & Galperina, Liubov & Minenko, Sofiia & Kovylina, Maria, 2020. "Analysis and forecasting of Ukrainian agrarian exports to the EU countries," Agricultural and Resource Economics: International Scientific E-Journal, Agricultural and Resource Economics: International Scientific E-Journal, vol. 6(3), September.
    2. Joseph Rajabu Kangile & Zena Theopist Mpenda & Reuben M. J. Kadigi & Charles Peter Mgeni, 2022. "The Effects of Trade Governance on Sugar Trade and Its Landscape of Policy Practices in Tanzania," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(3), pages 21582440221, September.

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    Keywords

    ACP; Competitiveness; Revealed Comparative Advantage; Sugar exports;
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    JEL classification:

    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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