Abstract
The main objective of this article is to determine the influence of Russia (in terms of their exports to Russia) on the competitiveness of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the international trade of high-tech goods in 2000-2016 in the context of the overall competitiveness of these countries in the international trade in this goods category. To this end, the author’s formula was used, which is a modification of the method of analysis of revealed comparative advantages in foreign trade of a given country developed by B. Balassa, while taking into account a hypothetical situation of total exclusion of exports to a country whose impact on the competitiveness of a given country is under examination. The analysis clearly shows that the influence of Russia (in terms of their exports to Russia) on the international competitiveness of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the area of high-tech goods trade in 2000-2016 was generally positive, although it differed in terms of strength of the impact, with the strongest being the case of Belarus and the weakest being the case of Armenia. However, this did not change the overall uncompetitive position of the analysed EAEU countries in the total international trade of high-tech goods.
Highlights
In the conditions of the intensification of globalisation processes accompanied by the internationalisation of economic activity, popularisation of the phenomenon of coopetition, or the acceleration of the ICT revolution, which leads to a progressive divergence of development between highly and underdeveloped countries, more and more attention is paid to research on the international competitiveness of economies
The subject of this article was the analysis of the influence of Russia on the competitiveness of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the international trade of high-tech goods in the years 2000-2016 in the context of their general competitiveness in the international trade of this goods category
The analysis of the issue shows that Russia’s influence on the international competitiveness of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the area of hightech goods trade in 2000-2016 was generally positive. This means that if these countries had not exported their high-tech goods to Russia, their international trade competitiveness in this area would have been much worse than it is in the situation of the existence of such exports to Russia
Summary
In the conditions of the intensification of globalisation processes accompanied by the internationalisation of economic activity, popularisation of the phenomenon of coopetition, or the acceleration of the ICT revolution, which leads to a progressive divergence of development between highly and underdeveloped countries, more and more attention is paid to research on the international competitiveness of economies. To achieve objective 1, the author’s formula was used, which is a modification of the analysis of revealed comparative advantages in foreign trade of a given country developed by B. While taking into account a hypothetical situation of total exclusion of exports to a country whose impact on the competitiveness of a given country is under examination. This analysis was preceded by a discussion of the significance of Russia in total export and the export of high-tech goods of this group of countries. In order to achieve objective 2, the logarithmic original formula of Balassa’s methodology was used
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