📅 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.