Polski handel zagraniczny produktami rolno-spożywczymi i jego przewaga komparatywna w latach 2008–2013

Renata Marks-Bielska, Wiesława Lizińska and Izabela Serocka

Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, 2015, vol. 38, issue 4

Abstract: The purpose of the article was to show the directions, values, structure and assessment of comparative advantage of Polish foreign trade in agri-food products. Adopted time range covered the years 2008–2013. The analysis was based on the data from the statistical publications of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics and the Central Statistical Offi ce. The results indicate a constant increase in the value of foreign trade in agri-food products, as well as a stable positive balance of foreign trade of these products. In the commodity structure the largest share in the period 2008–2013 were plant products (an average of 55.37% of total exports and 65.08% of total imports). Analysing the changes in the value of Lafay indicator of diff erent types of agri-food products in 2008–2013 decrease can be observed in this ratio in the case of total animal products (–4.24) and a simultaneous increase of the comparative advantage in the export of plant products in total (4,00).

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Political Economy; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Public Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.253639

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