Identify Comparative Advantage and Business Potential of Iran with Developing and Developed Countries

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This research aims to identify the best agricultural products of Iran against the products of twelve developing and developed countries. Also this paper analyzes potential export capacity of Iran to each country. We used RCA and cosine index for measuring business potential. The results show Iran's export to developing countries in seven products and to developed countries in the five-products has comparative advantages. The Cosine criteria indicates among developing countries, Iran can increase exports to UAE and Saudi. An important part of results revealed Germany, Britain and Canada have the highest number of imported agricultural products from Iran.

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