2014
DOI: 10.35536/lje.2014.v19.isp.a15
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Analyzing Pakistan’s Trade Opportunity with Turkey

Abstract: Growing economic cooperation between the Pakistani and Turkish governments—manifested in the recently proposed preferential trade agreement (PTA)—has served to strengthen the historically good relations between both countries. This paper explores the trade relationship between Pakistan and Turkey in an attempt to analyze the potential gains for Pakistan under the proposed PTA. We evaluate potential trade opportunities using descriptive statistics and three trade indices: a trade complementarity index, export s… Show more

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“…Therefore, values which are closer to 100 indicate that the commodity export structures between the two countries are similar and the competition in the global market will be more intensive (Fundira, 2013).ESI is subject to aggregation bias implying the more disaggregated the data considered, the lower is likely to be the value of the index. Thus,there is a certain degree of arbitrariness due to product/ industry choice (Gul, 2014).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, values which are closer to 100 indicate that the commodity export structures between the two countries are similar and the competition in the global market will be more intensive (Fundira, 2013).ESI is subject to aggregation bias implying the more disaggregated the data considered, the lower is likely to be the value of the index. Thus,there is a certain degree of arbitrariness due to product/ industry choice (Gul, 2014).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Figure 2 illustrates how Turkey's exports to Pakistan have continued to diversify. In fact, Pakistani businessmen must adopt a new paradigm and progressively shift their focus toward finding more export markets in Turkey by adding value (Gul, 2014). According to estimated figures for the years 2009 to 2016, socioeconomic indicators fluctuated between 71.3 and 79.5 in Turkey and 167.1 and 193.2 million people in Pakistan, respectively.…”
Section: Economic Tiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While Turkey's export to Pakistan kept on getting more diversified as showed in Figure 2. In fact, Pakistani traders required to follow paradigm shift and gradually lean towards exploring more export market in Turkey through value addition (Gul, 2014). The estimate statistics during 2009-2016 regarding socio-economic indicators show volatility in Pakistan as population increased from 167.1 million to 193.2 million while in Turkey it was 71.3 -79.5 during the said time period.…”
Section: Economic Relations Between Pakistan and Turkeymentioning
confidence: 99%