ECO Pazarında Türkiye: 1997–2005 Dönemi Rekabet Gücü Analizi

Nevzat Şi̇mşek and Said Azizullah Sadat

Sosyoekonomi Journal, 2009, issue 2009-2

Abstract: ECO is an economic cooperation organization which has revival in 1992 by participation of new members and it has 400 million populations over the 8 million kilometer square area. In this study by employing revealed comparative advantage analyze the competitive of Turkey in the ECO market (except Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan). Our research is based on different measures of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) indices (in addition to simple Balassa Index) and Vollrath index. The consistency and stability of different measures of RCA is also tested. At the end of measuring Turkey has revealed comparative advantage in the labor material intensive goods and has maintained this advantage for years. But it has revealed comparative disadvantage in raw material intensive goods. Result of these indices gives us the competitiveness of countries in any industry, but does not measure numerical amount of countries’ comparative advantage or competitiveness exactly.

Keywords: Competitiveness; Revealed Comparative Advantage; ECO. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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