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Belt and Road Initiatives and the Competitiveness of Natural Rubber Exports: Evidence from the BRI Region  

MOHAMAD, Abdul Hayy Haziq (School of Business and Management, University College of Technology Sarawak)
ZAINUDDIN, Muhamad Rias K.V. (Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.8, no.11, 2021 , pp. 145-155 More about this Journal
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This study examines the export competitiveness of four major natural rubber exporters in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region and investigates the factors affecting bilateral natural rubber export. This study utilized the revealed symmetric comparative advantage (RSCA) to measure export competitiveness. Next, this study employed the gravity model using the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimation to analyze the factors affecting bilateral export from the four major natural rubber exporters to 46 countries in the region. The analysis is conducted by using annual data from 2001 till 2018. The findings showed that all four major exporters maintained their export competitiveness. Indonesia and Vietnam notably exhibited increasing trends in the early 2000s. Besides, the market share for Malaysia and Vietnam have increased from 2013 to 2015 with the BRI implementation in 2013. In addition, this study discovered that non-tariff measures (NTM) have a positive and significant impact on the bilateral export of natural rubber. The overall findings strongly indicate that the natural rubber export has increased post BRI announcement. The outcome highlighted the benefits of BRI implementation on the natural rubber export. This study is the first attempt to apply the gravity model on the natural rubber exports within the BRI region.
Keywords
Natural Rubber; Export; Comparative Advantage; Belt Road Initiative; Gravity Model;
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