The competitiveness of the Syrian pistachio products A comparative analysis according to international indicators


Abstract in English

In this paper, taking most important indicators of the competitiveness of Syrian pistachio exports, where data were analyzed WTO to reach these indicators and which to menial describes results competitiveness of Syrian pistachio product. It has been analyzed individually first to prove that the exports of this product way good market share both domestically and internationally, and with the level of harmonic well with the requirements of the international markets and regional and are able to meet the patterns of global demand in terms of quality and price, and have the ability to integrate with various spectrums external demand for that product, and are highly concentrated in exports because of its dependence and its focus on a limited range of varieties of this product in the export, but when you compare these indicators with indicators of other countries producing pistachio, the results of the analysis indicate that the indicators Syria is one of the best indicators at the global level after both Iran and the United States and Turkey, but they need to technological additions more than it is to be able to increase the added value in this product, in addition to the need for additional investments that will achieve greater production and higher export share.

References used

OECD1996 Industrial Competitiveness : Benchmarking Business Environment in the Global Economy
Professor Boyan Jovanovic, Department of Economics, New York University, 269 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10003
Trade Can2003:Databes Software for a Comprehensive Analysis of Nation World Bank

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