Competitiveness of ACP Sugar Exports in the Global Market

Tebogo Seleka and Thula S. Dlamini

No 55, Working Papers from Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: ACP; Competitiveness; Revealed Comparative Advantage; Sugar exports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F13 F14 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2018-03
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Journal Article: Competitiveness of ACP Sugar Exporters in the Global Market (2020)
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