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This chapter describes the comparative advantage of India’s export of textile products using the measures such as revealed comparative advantage and revealed symmetric comparative advantage. These measures are estimated for India’s textile exports using three and four digit level trade data. The results indicate the worrying feature of declining trend in recent years in India’s comparative advantage in the export garments. Even at a disaggregate level the declining trend in the comparative advantage is apparent in many products like women/girl dresses woven, women/girl suit woven, men/boys shirt woven and men/boy knit/crochet shirt.
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Kannan, E. (2018). India’s Comparative Advantage in Export of Textiles and Apparel Products. In: Kumar, K. (eds) A Study of India's Textile Exports and Environmental Regulations. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6295-7_3
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