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India'S Revealed Comparative Advantages In Merchandise Trade With Country Groups At Different Levels Of Development

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  • Binoy Goswami
  • Hiranya K. Nath

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The comparative advantage (CA) measures for India's merchandise trade with high, middle income, and least developed countries, based on annual trade data for 16 product groups from 2003 to 2018, indicate that India has always had CA over all three groups in animal, food products, and textiles and clothing, and comparative disadvantage (CDA) in wood. Further, its CA over least developed countries and its CDA over middle income countries are more persistent than over other groups. The probabilities of switching from CDA to CA are higher than those for shifting from CA to CDA for all three groups. (JEL F14, O24, O57)

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  • Binoy Goswami & Hiranya K. Nath, 2021. "India'S Revealed Comparative Advantages In Merchandise Trade With Country Groups At Different Levels Of Development," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 39(2), pages 377-397, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:39:y:2021:i:2:p:377-397
    DOI: 10.1111/coep.12505
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    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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