• Dr. Veena Renjini K K

The paper focuses is to explain the competitiveness of India’s fishery sector exports in the back ground of classical and neoclassical theories of comparative cost advantage highlighting the importance of productivity. The classical school attributes the differences in productivity to difference in production function whereas the neoclassical school highlighted the importance of difference in factor endowment. The Heckscher-Ohlin theory establishes a distinctive relation between factor prices, commodity prices and factor intensities to explain the comparative cost advantage in trade. Thus, both the classical and neo-classical theories typically analyzed the importance of relative price in international trade along with its correlation to factor prices and productivities (Bhagwathi, 1964). This logically follows that export prices and competitiveness are closely related and which in turn depends on the price and productivity of inputs. Hence both the price competitiveness and productivity has been analysed.

Competitiveness, Price Competitiveness, Unit Price Export Price Index, Unit Price Index, Total Factor Productivity, Labour productivity, Capital productivity

"Fishery Sector Trade: An Analysis of Price Competitiveness & Productivity", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.823-854, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908D05.pdf

"Fishery Sector Trade: An Analysis of Price Competitiveness & Productivity", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp823-854, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908D05.pdf