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Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis

Agriculture sector plays an important role in the Malaysian economy. Malaysia experiences deficit in food balance of trade but some of the agricultural products such as palm oil, fisheries etc. have competitive advantage. This paper aims to examine Malaysia’s export food market growth between 1996 a...

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Main Authors: Alias, Emmy Farha, Radam, Alias, Yeong, Pei Fen, Yacob, Mohd Rusli, Alam, Md. Ferdous
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Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37807/1/37807.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37807/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.378072017-10-20T04:35:51Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37807/ Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis Alias, Emmy Farha Radam, Alias Yeong, Pei Fen Yacob, Mohd Rusli Alam, Md. Ferdous Agriculture sector plays an important role in the Malaysian economy. Malaysia experiences deficit in food balance of trade but some of the agricultural products such as palm oil, fisheries etc. have competitive advantage. This paper aims to examine Malaysia’s export food market growth between 1996 and 2009 using shift-share analysis. Findings show that the major export commodities from Malaysia are animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes (HS 15) during the said period. The increasing growth rate of Malaysia’s exports is found in the newly industrialized countries such as China, Iran, India and Ukraine due to their increasing demand for edible oil. However, influences of the trading agreements between these countries also cannot be denied. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37807/1/37807.pdf Alias, Emmy Farha and Radam, Alias and Yeong, Pei Fen and Yacob, Mohd Rusli and Alam, Md. Ferdous (2014) Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis. Asian Social Science, 10 (3). pp. 26-43. ISSN 1911-2017; ESSN: 1911-2025 http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/33836 10.5539/ass.v10n3p26
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description Agriculture sector plays an important role in the Malaysian economy. Malaysia experiences deficit in food balance of trade but some of the agricultural products such as palm oil, fisheries etc. have competitive advantage. This paper aims to examine Malaysia’s export food market growth between 1996 and 2009 using shift-share analysis. Findings show that the major export commodities from Malaysia are animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes (HS 15) during the said period. The increasing growth rate of Malaysia’s exports is found in the newly industrialized countries such as China, Iran, India and Ukraine due to their increasing demand for edible oil. However, influences of the trading agreements between these countries also cannot be denied.
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author Alias, Emmy Farha
Radam, Alias
Yeong, Pei Fen
Yacob, Mohd Rusli
Alam, Md. Ferdous
spellingShingle Alias, Emmy Farha
Radam, Alias
Yeong, Pei Fen
Yacob, Mohd Rusli
Alam, Md. Ferdous
Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
author_facet Alias, Emmy Farha
Radam, Alias
Yeong, Pei Fen
Yacob, Mohd Rusli
Alam, Md. Ferdous
author_sort Alias, Emmy Farha
title Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
title_short Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
title_full Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
title_fullStr Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
title_full_unstemmed Growth in Malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
title_sort growth in malaysia's export food market: a shift-share analysis
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37807/1/37807.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37807/
http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/33836
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