%0 Journal Article
%T Competitive Advantage of Yemeni Export in the US Market
%A Saleh Mothana Obadi
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 4
%N 9
%P 1-9
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2017
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1103852
%X <div style="text-align:justify;">
	<span style="line-height:1.5;">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 adva</span><span style="line-height:1.5;">ntages 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.</span>
</div>
%K Competitive Advantage
%K Yemeni Export
%K EU
%K USA
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5288853