📅 2023-01-13 — Session: Analyzed Chile’s Economic Complexity and Export Diversification
🕒 18:00–20:00
🏷️ Labels: Economic Complexity, Chile, Export Diversification, Trade Agreements, Regional Development
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal:
The session aimed to explore the economic complexity of Chile, focusing on export diversification and the impact of international trade agreements.
Key Activities:
- Reviewed evolutionary economic geography, emphasizing path dependency and regional development.
- Summarized Hausmann and Hidalgo’s paper on economic complexity, highlighting quantitative techniques for regional economic development.
- Discussed Chile’s foreign trade impact, export diversification challenges, and opportunities.
- Proposed a technical study for an economic complexity indicator for Chile’s exports.
Achievements:
- Gained insights into evolutionary economic geography and its implications for regional development.
- Clarified the role of economic complexity in export diversification and policy recommendations.
- Developed a proposal for a complexity indicator to assess Chile’s export potential.
Pending Tasks:
- Implement the proposed study on Chile’s export complexity and diversification opportunities.