In this study, considering to the important role of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and significance of geo-economic and geo-strategic of its member states, we analyzed the commercial status of some of this organization's member countries that regionally have advantage. For this purpose, indices of trade among inter- specialization index, trade dissimilarity index and export concentration for altered agricultural products are used. Then, the factors influencing agricultural export productivity index was examined in the form of panel data model for these countries. The results illustrated that even though Iran has good condition within the inter- specialization index, but it suffers from low agricultural export productivity. Also, the most effective agent in agricultural exports productivity is economic freedom and agricultural population and area of agricultural land does not affect factors in agricultural export productivity.
Naderi, H., Salarpour, M., & Roshanfar, M. A. (2012). Export productivity and trade specialization of agricultural products in the ECO. Agricultural Economics, 6(1), 155-178.
MLA
Hemin Naderi; Mashallah Salarpour; Mohammad Ali Roshanfar. "Export productivity and trade specialization of agricultural products in the ECO". Agricultural Economics, 6, 1, 2012, 155-178.
HARVARD
Naderi, H., Salarpour, M., Roshanfar, M. A. (2012). 'Export productivity and trade specialization of agricultural products in the ECO', Agricultural Economics, 6(1), pp. 155-178.
VANCOUVER
Naderi, H., Salarpour, M., Roshanfar, M. A. Export productivity and trade specialization of agricultural products in the ECO. Agricultural Economics, 2012; 6(1): 155-178.
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