Assessing the Competitiveness of Malaysia and Indonesia Palm Oil Related Industry

• Main Authors: Mohammad Affendy, Arip, Lau, Sim Yee, Thien, Sie Feng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Billion Brains 2013
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17935/1/M.%20Affendy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17935/; http://www.wrbrpapers.com/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

This study aims to examine the comparative advantage of palm oil related products in Malaysia and Indonesia using the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) approach introduced by Balassa (1989). Our findings based on 20 related palm oil products show the following. Firstly, the RCA indexes for these...