ISSN: 2265-6294

Measuring The Comparative Advantage of Fishery Industry in Malaysia using the Revealed Comparative Advantage Model

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Vikneswary Tirumalaisamy, Asokan Vasudevan, Toong Hai Sam, Toong Hai Sam, Xue Ruiteng, Rajermani Thinakaran, Umi Kalsom, Lim Kim Yew

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This paper aims to measure and rank the comparative advantage of Malaysia's fishery industry with selected neighbouring countries. Design/Methodology This study adopts Balassa's (1989) 's Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) model to identify the comparative advantages of Malaysia in the fishery sector compared with the neighbouring countries. The data span the period from 1995 up to 2015 (annually). The primary data on export (X) and import (M) flows based on the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature, which is derived from the UN COMTRADE database and the Department of Fishery Malaysia. The broad product groups in the HS code will be referred to under the fishery code of HS03. The results from these data are computed using the EViews software.

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