Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model

Volume: 6 Number: 6 August 1, 2016
  • Haider Mahmood
  • Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb
  • Nabil Maalel
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Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model

Abstract

The regional trade provides better environment for any country to achieve the trade objective instead of a total free trade in this modern age. This study investigates the determinants of Egyptian agriculture trade with her 20 COMESA trading partners by using data of 1990-2015 and by applying Pooled Mean Group Estimators (PMG) on gravity model. Our results are confirming the panel cointegration in our model. Egyptian GDP and population are negatively influencing to the agriculture balance of trade. COMESA trading partners’ GDP and population have positive impact on the balance of trade. The exchange rate depreciation has unfavorable impact on agriculture balance of trade in the short run and has a favorable impact in long run. This is an evidence for presence of J-curve hypothesis in Egyptian trade in COMESA region and also showing an elastic behavior of exchange rate on balance of trade in the long run. Hence, this study recommends to Egyptian policy makers to adopt depreciation policy to correct agriculture balance of trade with COMESA trading partners.

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Haider Mahmood This is me

Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb This is me

Nabil Maalel This is me

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August 1, 2016

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August 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Volume: 6 Number: 6

APA
Mahmood, H., Alkhateeb, T. T. Y., & Maalel, N. (2016). Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 6(6), 177-182. https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB
AMA
1.Mahmood H, Alkhateeb TTY, Maalel N. Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model. IJEFI. 2016;6(6):177-182. https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB
Chicago
Mahmood, Haider, Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb, and Nabil Maalel. 2016. “Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade With Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model”. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 6 (6): 177-82. https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB.
EndNote
Mahmood H, Alkhateeb TTY, Maalel N (August 1, 2016) Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 6 6 177–182.
IEEE
[1]H. Mahmood, T. T. Y. Alkhateeb, and N. Maalel, “Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model”, IJEFI, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 177–182, Aug. 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB
ISNAD
Mahmood, Haider - Alkhateeb, Tarek Tawfik Yousef - Maalel, Nabil. “Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade With Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model”. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 6/6 (August 1, 2016): 177-182. https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB.
JAMA
1.Mahmood H, Alkhateeb TTY, Maalel N. Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model. IJEFI. 2016;6:177–182.
MLA
Mahmood, Haider, et al. “Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade With Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model”. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, vol. 6, no. 6, Aug. 2016, pp. 177-82, https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB.
Vancouver
1.Haider Mahmood, Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb, Nabil Maalel. Egyptian Intra Agriculture Trade with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Trading Partners: A Gravity Model. IJEFI [Internet]. 2016 Aug. 1;6(6):177-82. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA29LL86BB