Competitive Advantage of Yemeni Export in the US Market

Abstract

This paper explores competitive advantage of Yemeni export in the market of the USA. Yemen has been placed under a special situation since the "Arab Spring" in 2011; therefore, our analyses study the eleven years prior to the war, between 2000 and 2011, and employ 2-digit SITCs to identify the various products for the selected study period. Balassa's index has been utilized to measure revealed competitive advantage (RCA). This approach is universally popular and is widely reported in literature; however, we are cognizant to the fact that this index may not be empirically relevant. Despite this drawback, Balassa's index has a feature for gross sectoral competiveness of the examined country or a group of countries. According to our empirical analyses using Balassa's index, we identified Yemen to have competitive advantages at the global level during international trade in the selected study period. The competitive advantage was restricted to a few groups of energy and non-energy commodities.

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