HOW SOPHISTICATED ARE POLAND’S AND TURKEY’S EXPORTS?

Year 2008, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 257 - 274, 06.06.2014

Pınar Emirhan

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to use the sophistication index developed by Lall et al. (2006) to analyze the export structures of Turkey and Poland. Export sophistication index is calculated to determine the sophistication levels of each industry at the 3 digit ISIC system. These index values are then used to compare export sophistications of Poland and Turkey. The findings indicate that export structures of the two countries were similar with regard to their sophistication levels in 1985, Poland’s position improved and Turkey’s position declined in the last two decades. Today Poland is exporting relatively more sophisticated manufactured products than Turkey.

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