Economic Complexity Analysis

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Economic Complexity (EC) is defined as the complete measure of the production of a country, to understand the economic growth of a nation. This measurement is dependent on the country's diversity, the ubiquity of products, per capita income and the product space. These metrics, help measure the country's exports to provide the Economic Complexity Score, which helps explain the difference in the level of income of countries, and it predicts future economic growth. The primary purpose or goal of EC is to explain the economic system of a country as a whole. The model answers the central question of what a country's economic growth projections are. Some other problems embedded in the issue that the model is trying to explain is- What are the imports …show more content…

For example: Take it that Netherlands exports X-ray Machines, Medicines, Frozen Fish, and Refined Petroleum. Argentina exports, Frozen Fish, Bananas, and Corn. Brazil exports Frozen Fish and Corn. As the diversity of the country is measured in terms of the products the country is connected with, Netherlands' diversity is 4, Argentina's 3, and Brazil's 2. Ubiquity, on the other hand, is related to the number of countries a product is connected to. Considering the same example as before, the ubiquity of frozen fish is 3, that of corn is 2, and that of X-ray Machines, Medicines, Bananas and Refined Petroleum is 1. Diversity and Ubiquity are thus related in such a way that, diversity can be used to correct information that ubiquity conveys and vice …show more content…

There is a strong co-relation between Economic Complexity and the Per Capita Income that countries generate. To help understand this relationship better, take for example China and Thailand. The two countries have high levels of economic complexity but low levels of per capita income. The low per capita income with high economic complexity indicates that these countries are rich because of productive knowledge. When it is the opposite, i.e., countries have low economic complexity and high levels of per capita income, the countries are rich not because of productive knowledge but due to the large volumes of natural resources. The economic complexity thus affects the country's per capita income and drives its future

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