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Where i <strong>and</strong> j indicate industry <strong>and</strong> home country, respectively. On the numerator, x ij<br />

represents exports of industry i in country j to the world. On the denominator the sum of all<br />

countries in BSEC is used for comparative purposes. Thus a comparison is made between<br />

the structure of trade for one BSEC member country, vis-à-vis the structure of all other BSEC<br />

member countries. Therefore, RCA ij > 1 means that industry i in country j has a comparative<br />

advantage (compared with the BSEC average) while if RCA ij

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