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2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
CZ
0.55
0.56
0.69
0.82
0.83
HU
1.03
1.16
1.35
1.31
1.19
PL
0.70
0.38
0.22
0.23
-0.02
SK
0.63
0.82
0.92
1.01
1.10
Source: author’s own calculation based on (FAOSTAT, 2015),
(International Trade in Goods - Exports 2001-2016, 2015).
Green marked fields indicate comparative advantage of V4
country in the commodity category versus the world.
FIGURE 5: Relative Export Advantage of Six Commodities,
2004-2013
Source: author’s own calculation based on (FAOSTAT, 2015),
(International Trade in Goods - Exports 2001-2016, 2015).
TABLE 4: Relative Import Advantage of Live Animals, 2004-
2013
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
CZ
-0.98
-0.80
-0.88
-1.10
-0.66
HU
0.32
0.36
0.37
-0.18
-0.34
PL
-0.17
-0.02
-0.32
-0.18
0.06
SK
-0.16
0.00
-0.15
-0.42
0.01
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
CZ
-0.65
-0.55
-0.59
-0.08
0.00
HU
0.08
0.70
0.57
0.71
0.42
PL
0.40
0.25
0.47
0.94
1.20
SK
-0.01
0.12
0.08
0.52
0.56
Source: author’s own calculation based on ( FAOSTAT, 2015),
(International trade in
goods - imports 2001-2016, 2015).
FIGURE 6: Relative Import Advantage of Six Commodities,
2004-2013
Source: author’s own calculation based on ( FAOSTAT, 2015),
(International trade in goods - imports 2001-2016, 2015).
3.4 Revealed Competitiveness of Live Animals and Six
Chosen Commodities
Revealed Competitiveness is a remarkable measure when trying
to gauge a country’s overall live animals and its commodities.
To arrive at a final index number for revealed competitiveness,
we subtract the Relative Export Advantage of the sector from its
Relative Import Advantage, using natural logarithms to ease
comparisons.
In this section, we describe the Revealed Competitiveness of V4
countries of live animals versus the world trade market. We
implement the principle of Relative Competitiveness as
mentioned already, where a positive value of RC is interpreted as
the indication of V4 comparative advantage versus the world.
Table 5 shows RC is the highest index in the Czech Republic
from 2004 to 2005 and from 2007 to 2013, and in Poland in
2006. Figure 7 better demonstrates the declines of Poland’s
competitiveness, which is seen as a danger for future growth. On
the contrary, very good prospects and tendencies are shown by
Hungary and Slovakia, with potential growth. The Czech
Republic shows a decreasing trend.
TABLE 5: Revealed Competitiveness of Live Animals, 2004-
2013
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
CZ
1.56
1.41
1.40
1.62
1.35
HU
0.42
0.45
0.35
0.77
1.24
PL
1.31
1.22
1.55
1.01
0.53
SK
0.27
0.41
0.62
0.64
0.31
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
CZ
1.20
1.11
1.28
0.90
0.83
HU
0.95
0.46
0.78
0.60
0.77
PL
0.30
0.13
-0.25
-0.71
-1.22
SK
0.64
0.70
0.84
0.49
0.54
Source: author’s own calculation.
FIGURE 7: Revealed Competitiveness of Live Animals, 2004-
2013
Source: author’s own calculation.
Figure 8 shows a better overview by commodity of the
competitiveness of live animals and the advantages on the world
market. The first group focused on is Cattle. Slovakia had a big
advantage from 2004 and 2005, with a descending trend
thereafter. The Czech Republic showed great potential in this
commodity from the beginning of 2006 to 2007 and continued
to rise from 2010 to 2013. In Hungary, the highest peak is
observed from 2008 to 2009, with a downward trend. Poland can
be seen as the loser.
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