|
|
An Economic Study of the Growth Determinants for the Egyptian Orange Exports to the Global Market
|
|
Abstract: ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
• Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Egyptian Association of Agricultural Economics, Vol.(23), No.(2), Cairo, Egypt, June 2016.
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Agricultural exports are drivers of economic growth as, apart from earning valuable foreign currency; it creates sustainable jobs, increases the adaption of advanced technologies and production practices as well as the enhancement of overall competitiveness of the agricultural sector. Egypt's average exports of orange grew at an annual rate of 20% during the period (2001-2012), accounting for about 14% of the total value of agricultural exports. These discussions raised an important research question on what are the most important growth determinants of Egypt's orange exports. The study attempts to investigate the situation of the Egyptian exports of orange in the key importing market, identify the most important competitive countries to Egypt's orange exports, and investigate the determinants of such exports in order to gain knowledge on the factors that influence the value of the Egyptian exports of orange. The results of the augmented gravity model revealed three factors that were found to be most significant namely, exchange rate, population, and the physical distance from Cairo to the capitals of the importers. GDP of Egypt, GDP of the trading partner, and the economic difference are of less importance. The total size of the specific export market for the Egyptian oranges is also of lesser importance to the flows of the Egyptian oranges.
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Key words: orange exports; gravity model; determinants of trade; Egypt
|
| URL |
|
| Publication year |
2013
|
| Availability location |
مكتبة معهد بحوث الاقتصاد الزراعي-7 ش نادى الصيد - مبنى الهيئات والشركات - الدقي- الجيزة (الدور الرابع)
|
| Availability number |
|
| Organization Name |
|
| City |
القاهرة
|
| serial title |
Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Economics
|
| Author(s) from ARC |
|
| Publication Type |
Journal
|