Competitiveness of Malaysian Fisheries Exports: A Constant Market Share Analysis

Malaysia, one of the global major fish producers, has highly traded fisheries products given its many water bodies. Nonetheless, it faces a serious fish trade deficit, implying that the Malaysian fisheries sector might lose its competitiveness in the global market. This paper adopts a modified constant market share (CMS) analysis, which incorporates a net-share approach index and geometric framework, to measure the export competitiveness of the Malaysian fisheries sector. The findings reveal that half of the fisheries products exhibit optimistic export competitiveness. Malaysia reflects the strongest competitiveness in exporting frozen fish and the least competitiveness in the export of crustaceans. Additional effort and attention on those less competitive groups of aquatic invertebrates, live fish and crustaceans are required to improve the export performance. Application of the modified approach is highly proposed as it is not only a simple measurement that gives relatively more accurate results but also succeeds to overcome inconsistency in the traditional approach. The findings provide evidence of unrealised fish export potential regarding product categories, which helps policymakers, traders and marketers to develop their long-term strategic plans and enhance the export competitiveness of the fisheries sector in Malaysia.

Who is Trading Well with China? A Gravity and Constant Market Share Analysis of Exports of Pakistan and ASEAN in the Chinese Market

This paper empirically investigated the trade competitiveness and trade potential of Pakistan and ASEAN countries in the Chinese market. The study utilizes trade data for the period of 2003–2019 to assess the bilateral trade aspects by using an extended gravity equation. In addition, the PPML model and constant market share analysis are applied to examine trade potential and competitiveness, respectively. Market size, distance, trade openness, revealed comparative advantage position and common border play an important role in bilateral trade of Pakistan and ASEAN with China, and coefficients of all these variables comply with the economic theory and are statistically significant. Pakistan along with Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, and Thailand has great trade potential in the Chinese market. Particularly Cambodia and Vietnam are enjoying the highest competitive advantage as compared to other ASEAN countries. Pakistan’s export performance in China’s market relies on the market distribution effect. Based on this study, we have discussed country-specific future policy discourse for Pakistan and ASEAN countries in detail.

Transformasi Hijau dan Implikasinya terhadap Daya Saing Berkelanjutan

Transformasi Hijau dan Implikasinya terhadap Daya Saing BerkelanjutanAbstractThis paper examines the linkage of green transformation and competitive advantage at the global level using constant market share and global value chain analysis. Constant market share analysis is used to measure a country’s trade contribution by comparing a country’s export growth with world export growth. Global value chain analysis is also employed to strengthen the constant market share analysis by looking at the role of green transformation in boosting the Indonesian competitiveness in the global supply chain. To achieve the objective of this study, data was collected from secondary sources such as the United Nations Comtrade Database and Asian Development Bank multi-regional input-output (ADB MRIO) for the period of 2000-2018. Constant market share analysis shows that dirty manufactured products from Indonesia can no longer be relied on to compete in the US and European markets due to the increasingly stringent environmental standards and regulations in those countries. Meanwhile, global value chain analysis finds that the clean manufacturing industry has higher competitiveness than the gross manufacturing industry at the global market level. For this reason, this study concludes that the future of Indonesia's manufacturing industry to compete at the global level is in the hand of the clean manufacturing industry.Keywords: green transformation; competitiveness; environmental regulation; constant market share analysis; global value chain analysisJEL Classification: F14, F18, Q56

Daya Saing dan Posisi Sektor Pangan Indonesia Menghadapi Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

Kerja sama RCEP dipastikan akan membuka akses pasar yang luas di negara anggota RCEP. Di saat yang bersamaan Indonesia dihadapkan dengan tantangan dan ancaman apabila kerja sama RCEP diberlakukan. Tulisan ini bertujuan mengetahui daya saing produk pangan Indonesia di pasar negara mitra RCEP, mengetahui daya saing produk pangan negara mitra RCEP di pasar Indonesia, mengetahui posisi produk pangan yang dapat dimanfaatkan dan perlu dilindungi dalam rangka kerja sama perdagangan bebas RCEP. Daya saing produk pangan di analisis menggunakan Constant Market Share Analysis (CMSA). Posisi sektor pangan diketahui dengan melakukan analisis terhadap kebijakan tarif dan nilai daya saing produk pangan. Data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder yang diperoleh dari UNCOMTRADE dan Sekretariat ASEAN. Hasil analisis menunjukkan jumlah produk pangan Indonesia yang memiliki daya saing tetapi masih memiliki hambatan tarif berjumlah 23 produk di China, 5 produk di Korea, 16 produk di India, dan 2 produk di Jepang. Produk pangan Indonesia yang masih menerapkan hambatan tarif terhadap seluruh negara mitra RCEP dan perlu perlindungan tarif berjumlah 17 produk. Sedangkan produk pangan Indonesia yang sudah dihapuskan tarifnya di seluruh negara mitra RCEP berjumlah 260 produk. Produk pangan Indonesia yang memiliki hambatan tarif untuk salah satu atau lebih negara mitra RCEP berjumlah 257 produk.

Fisheries Exports of India: A Constant Market Share Analysis

The present study analyses the performance of fisheries exports of India using revealed comparative advantage (RCA), revealed symmetric comparative advantage (RSCA) and the constant market share (CMS) analysis for the period 1980–2016. Indian exports of fisheries have shown a positive trend of comparative advantage in all the markets under consideration revealed by RCA and RSCA. However, CMS results show that for most of the markets, competitiveness had been the utmost crucial driving factor of change in the market shares of Indian fish exports over the study period.