Assessment of Identified and Potential Comparative Advantages as Tools for Forecasting the Sectoral Structure of Exports in Terms of Russia's Accession to the WTO
Abstract
The paper describes method of studying and evaluation of revealed comparative advantages analyzes prospects for the trade relations in the context of Russia’s WTO accession, also provides an empirical analysis of the revealed comparative advantages of Russia and estimation of the index of potential comparative advantages for the assessment of trade specialization. The results can be used to the concept of international trade relations development and to identification the main directions of diversification of Russian exports industrial structure.
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