What matters is dynamic comparative advantage, or comparative advantage in the long run, which can be shaped.

With trade liberalization, the cost of ignoring comparative advantage soars.

Forty years ago, South Korea had a comparative advantage in growing rice.

Do we have the comparative advantage to use another sort of energy?

In other words, families in rich countries, who are relatively well educated, have a comparative advantage in child quality, whereas parents in poor countries have a comparative advantage in child quantity.

From this perspective, these countries comparative advantage is having other countries exploit their resources.

A country will always have a comparative advantage in something but that something changes.

In this view, America s ingenuity represents its true comparative advantage, which others strive to imitate.

That comparative advantage can just as easily be in services as in manufacturing or agriculture.

Many advanced countries, for example, now have a comparative advantage in high value added activities.

The rich effectively close their markets to many goods that represent the comparative advantage of the poor.

Some US industries, such as chemicals and plastics, will gain a significant comparative advantage in production costs.

Within Christianity, for well known historical reasons, Protestantism has had a comparative advantage in adapting to pluralism.

Low cost call centers in India or Chinese made bicycles do not reflect any natural comparative advantage.

Partnerships of this kind are one area in which UN ECE has a clearly established comparative advantage.

As the services produced and traded across the world expand with globalization, the possibilities for all countries to develop based on their comparative advantage expand. That comparative advantage can just as easily be in services as in manufacturing or agriculture.

Trade is potentially a positive sum game, with all countries benefiting by exploiting their areas of comparative advantage.

Developing countries also need access for the unskilled labor intensive services in which they have a comparative advantage.

The multilateral lenders advocated a development strategy based on the theory of comparative advantage and unbridled economic liberalization.

But your agricultural subsidy programs block us from establishing any sort of comparative advantage in most agricultural products.

It is my hope that China s comparative advantage as a low wage producer does disappear the sooner the better.

His comparative advantage was on the outside, where he was free to develop his insights and express his views.

Kremer and E. Maksin have proposed a remarkably beautiful model, an alternative to the Ricardian theory of comparative advantage.

It is often said that the EU's comparative advantage lies in its normative power, or the power of its values.

The Uruguay round promised the elimination of quotas in 2004, enabling many developing countries to exploit another area of comparative advantage.

First, international trade is based on the principle of comparative advantage countries export goods in which they have a relative advantage and import goods in which they have a relative disadvantage.

Textiles. The Uruguay round promised the elimination of quotas in 2004, enabling many developing countries to exploit another area of comparative advantage.

Public schooling, too, can release people from the poverty trap, because highly educated people have a comparative advantage in raising quality children.

Members will specialize in industries in which they lack comparative advantage, undercutting the main reason to support free trade in the first place.

We Europeans cannot afford the luxury of dismantling a high value added industrial sector in which we still have a real comparative advantage.

As foreign firms launch operations in the labor intensive sectors in which Africa has a comparative advantage, they will train the local workforce.

These were off the agenda in earlier trade rounds, as the US pushed for liberalization of financial services thus serving its own comparative advantage.

That observation should not, however, overshadow fundamental economic insights specifically, that trade and the location of production are determined by comparative, not absolute, advantage.

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As the services produced and traded across the world expand with globalization, the possibilities for all countries to develop based on their comparative advantage expand.

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Nor does the usual argument for free trade apply. Low cost call centers in India or Chinese made bicycles do not reflect any natural comparative advantage.

Of course, today, these countries may not have a comparative advantage in many of these activities, and some will argue that countries should stick to their strengths.

Advantage Obama.

Today, a new comparative debate has started.

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But this is supposedly a good thing, not a bad thing, because America should be specializing in its areas of comparative advantage, involving skilled labor and advanced technology.

And now that China, too, is beginning to lose its comparative advantage in labor intensive industries, other developing countries especially in Africa are set to take its place.