Tanzania in the Face of International Trade: The Analysis of Revealed Comparative Advantage from 2009 to 2012

Nuran Ally Mwasha, Zabibu Kweka
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Tanzania is the most promising current and the destination market for the world trade due to its copious resources and strategic location. It is well known in the region as the trade hub as it provides the influential and suitable trade solutions and investments. The aspiration of this paper is to analyse the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) for the topmost export sectors and commodities in Tanzania from 2009 to 2012 by inspecting and evaluating its potency and competence in the world market compared to exports from other countries. Balassa’s index of Comparative advantage (RCA) was utilized to demonstrate the competitive sectors and commodities comparative advantage together with export data from UN com-trade and International Trade Centre (ITC). The outcomes show that Tanzania has significantly strong comparative advantages in sectors of traditional cash crops such as coffee, tea and spices and commodities found in mineral resources as the leading export sector and commodities for the period of four years with RCA greater than one. However, many sectors demonstrated lower RCA compared to individual commodities and the export products have been waning every year, the situation that needs the government to initiate the immediate measures to overcome such problem.
面对国际贸易的坦桑尼亚:2009 - 2012年显性比较优势分析
坦桑尼亚资源丰富,地理位置优越,是世界贸易最具发展前景的市场和目的地。它是本地区著名的贸易中心,提供有影响力和合适的贸易解决方案和投资。本文的愿望是通过检查和评估其在世界市场上的潜力和竞争力,与其他国家的出口相比,分析2009年至2012年坦桑尼亚最重要的出口部门和商品的显示比较优势(RCA)。利用Balassa的比较优势指数(RCA),结合uncom - Trade和国际贸易中心(ITC)的出口数据,展示了竞争部门和商品的比较优势。结果表明,坦桑尼亚在咖啡、茶和香料等传统经济作物部门以及作为主要出口部门的矿产资源中发现的商品和四年期间RCA大于1的商品方面具有明显的比较优势。但是,与个别商品相比,许多行业的RCA较低,而且出口产品的RCA每年都在下降,这需要政府立即采取措施来克服这一问题。
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