revealed comparative advantage
Definitions
Economics
- Balassa's (1965) measure of relative export performance by country and industry, defined as a country's share of world exports of a good divided by its share of total world exports. The index for country i good j is RCAij = 100(Xij /Xwj)/(Xit /Xwt) where Xab is exports by country a (w=world) of good b (t=total for all goods).
- acronymRCA (written as Revealed comparative advantage)
- revealed comparative advantage.
