Comparative Advantage among African Coffee Producers

Scott R. Pearson and Ronald K. Meyer

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1974, vol. 56, issue 2, 310-313

Abstract: Relative comparative advantage is measured by contrasting country ratios of the domestic resource costs per unit of foreign exchange earned by exporting coffee to the exchange rate. Uganda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania have strong relative comparative advantages in coffee vis-à-vis the Ivory Coast, largely because of higher opportunity costs of Ivoirian factors.

Date: 1974
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