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Title: Assessing Botswana’s textiles export trade potential using the gravity model
Authors: Makochekanwa, Albert
Jordaan, Andre C.
Kemegue, Francis M.
Keywords: Sectoral exports
Botswana
Export trade
Textile products
Trade potential
Gravity model
Issue Date: Apr-2012
Publisher: Botswana Economics Association
Citation: Makochekanwa, A., Jordaan, A. C., & Kemegue, F. M. (2012). Assessing Botswana’s textiles export trade potential using the Gravity Model. The Botswana Journal of Economics, 9(13), 40-56.
Abstract: 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 of textile products as these countries have untapped market potential for such products. The research also found that existence of unrealized 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 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.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10646/2970
ISSN: 1810-0163
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