Export Performance with Border Sharing Countries: An Assessment of Pakistan

Kashif Munir and Maryam Sultan

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Abstract: This study analyzed the export performance of Pakistan with its border sharing countries for the year 2014. The study has followed Dalum et al. (1998) revealed symmetric comparative advantage index to measure export performance. The study has split the analysis into highest and marginal comparative advantage and disadvantage. Pakistan is exporting around 160, 155, 133 and 60 commodities at three-digit level of SITC (Rev 3) classification to Afghanistan, China, India and Iran respectively. We found that in more than half of these commodities exported to border sharing countries Pakistan has highest and marginal comparative disadvantage. Result shows that rice and cotton is of worth importance because both are cash crops of Pakistan. Rice is in marginal disadvantage segment for Afghanistan, China and Iran. Political and diplomatic channels are needed to improve the performance of cross border trading among the countries especially with border sharing countries.

Keywords: RCA; Exports; Pakistan; Border Sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F01 F14 R1 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02-14
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