Record Details

Assessing Botswana’s Textiles Export Trade Potential Using the Gravity Model

Botswana Journal of Economics

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Assessing Botswana’s Textiles Export Trade Potential Using the Gravity Model
 
Creator Makochekanwa, Albert
Jordaan, Andre C
Kemegue, Francis M
 
Subject —
 
Description Through the application of the gravity trade model technique, the study investigates countries for which Botswana has unrealized export trade potential in textile products. The estimated results indicate that Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ghana, Mozambique and Switzerland are the export destinations to which Botswana should increase its export textile products as these countries have untapped market potential for such products. The research also found that existence of unrealized export potential in this sector was as a result of a number of issues including import barriers put by the importing country’s major trading partners as well as other problems from Botswana’s side. These barriers and hindrances to Botswana’s sectoral exports include stringent rules of origin (RoO), low product quality, inadequate international marketing and unrecorded informal trade.Keywords: Sectoral exports, trade potential, gravity model, BotswanaBotswana Journal of Economics, vol 9 (13) 2012
 
Publisher The Botswana Economics Association
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2012-11-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/boje/article/view/82936
 
Source Botswana Journal of Economics; Vol 9, No 13 (2012)
1810-0163
1810-0163
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright for content published in the journal is held by The Botswana Economics Association