Abstract

RENDON TREJO, Araceli  and  MORALES ALQUICIRA, Andrés. Flujos comerciales y competitividad en la Industria del calzado. Polít. cult. [online]. 2006, n.26, pp.235-260. ISSN 0188-7742.

This work intends to show the utility of the 'Index of revealed comparative advantages' in the measurement of the industrial competitiveness; it is used as case of study the industry of footwear in Mexico in the period 1980-1996, lapse characterized by the transit of the protectionist model to the commercial opening one. The work initiates with the presentation of the index and the methodology used for its construction in the industry of footwear; immediately the calculations are made and the results interpretated. Finally these are related to the balances of the trade scale and the different implemented types of exchange policy in the studied period; with it, it establishes some conclusions on the competitiveness of the industry of footwear and its classes.

Keywords : footwear; Index of revealed comparative adventages; commercial flows; protectionist model; commercial scale.

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