Browsing by Author "Hausmann, Ricardo"

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    • Achieving Export-Led Growth in Colombia 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Klinger, Bailey (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)
      The purpose of this paper is to analyze Colombia’s experiences with and opportunities for export led growth. We first review Colombia’s growth and export performance over the past 30 years and find that the country is ...

    • Analysis of Tourism-Related Foreign Expenditure with International Spend Data 

      Coscia, Michele; Hausmann, Ricardo; Neffke, Frank (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-11)
      Tourism is one of the most important economic activities in the world: for many countries it represents the single largest product in their export basket. However, it is a product difficult to chart: "exporters" of tourism ...

    • Appraising the Economic Potential of Panama: Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Santos, Miguel Angel; Obach, Juan (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-05)
      This report aims to summarize the main findings of the project as gathered by the three baseline documents, and frame them within a coherent set of policy recommendations that can help Panama to maintain their growth ...

    • Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Latin America 

      Alesina, Alberto; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hommes, Rudolf; Stein, Ernesto (Elsevier Science B.V., 1999)
      In this paper, we collect detailed information on the budget institutions of Latin American countries. We classify these institutions on a "hierarchical"/"collegial" scale, as a function of the existence of constraints on ...

    • The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity 

      Hidalgo, César A.; Hausmann, Ricardo (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-09)
      For Adam Smith, wealth was related to the division of labor. As people and firms specialize in different activities, economic efficiency increases, suggesting that development is associated with an increase in the number ...

    • Certification Strategies, Industrial Development and a Global Market for Biofuels 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Wagner, Rodrigo (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-12)
      A disproportionately large amount of the world's agronomic potential for the production of bio-ethanol is concentrated in a subset of developing countries. To develop that potential, countries need both the existence of ...

    • China and the Global Economy: Medium-term Issues and Options - A Synthesis Report 

      Lim, Edwin; Spence, Michael; Hausmann, Ricardo (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-06)
      China’s economic and social achievements since the beginning of reform and opening are unprecedented in global history. Managing the growth process in this continuously changing environment has required great skill and the ...

    • Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps? 

      Ganguli Prokopovych, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in ...

    • Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps? 

      Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-04)
      In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in ...

    • Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, César A. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      Countries differ markedly in the diversification of their exports. Products differ in the number of countries that export them, which we define as their ubiquity. We document a new stylized fact in the global pattern of ...

    • Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, César A. (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)
      Countries differ markedly in the diversification of their exports. Products differ in the number of countries that export them, which we define as their ubiquity. We document a new stylized fact in the global pattern of ...

    • Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: ‘Smart Sanctioning’ Russian Oil and Gas 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Łoskot-Strachota, Agata; Ockenfels, Axel; Schetter, Ulrich; Tagliapietra, Simone; Wolff, Guntram; Zachmann, Georg (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-04)
      Following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, major sanctions have been imposed by Western countries, most notably with the aim of limiting Russia’s access to hard international currency. However, Russia remains the ...

    • Debt Levels, Debt Composition, and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging and Advanced Economies 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Dell’Erba, Salvatore; Panizza, Ugo (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-08)
      This paper studies the relationship between sovereign spreads and the interaction between debt composition and debt levels in advanced and emerging market countries. It finds that in emerging market countries there is a ...

    • Development in a Complex World: The Case of Ethiopia 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; O'Brien, Tim; Cheston, Timothy; Hassen, Ibrahim; Soylu, Can; Shah, Kishan; Taniparti, Nikita; Prasad, Pankhuri; Neumeyer, Pablo
      This research compendium provides an explanation of Ethiopia’s fundamental economic challenge of slowing economic growth after an exceptional growth acceleration — a challenge that has been compounded by COVID-19, conflict, ...

    • Diagnostico de Crecimiento de Chiapas: La Trampa de la Baja Productividad 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Espinoza, Luis; Santos, Miguel Angel (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-10)
      Chiapas no sólo es la entidad de menor ingreso per cápita de México, sino también la que menos creció durante la última década. En consecuencia, la brecha que lo separa del resto del país ha venido ampliándose significativamente. ...

    • Doing Growth Diagnostics in Practice: A 'Mindbook' 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Klinger, Bailey; Wagner, Rodrigo (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)
      This paper systematizes the implementation of the Growth Diagnostics framework. It aims to give the meta-steps that a persuasive growth diagnosis should have, and elaborates on the strategies and methods that may be used. ...

    • The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems 

      Bustos, Sebastián; Gomez, Charles; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, César A. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      In economic systems, the mix of products that countries make or export has been shown to be a strong leading indicator of economic growth. Hence, methods to characterize and predict the structure of the network connecting ...

    • The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems 

      Bustos, Sebastián; Gomez, Charles; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, César A. (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-04)
      Decades of research in ecology have shown that nestedness is a ubiquitous characteristic of both, biological and economic ecosystems. The dynamics of nestedness, however, have rarely been observed. Here we show that the ...

    • The Economic Complexity of Kazakhstan: A Roadmap for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Barrios, Douglas; Brenot, Clement; Taniparti, Nikita; Protzer, Eric; Henn, Sophia (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2023-02)
      Since the end of the 1990s, Kazakhstan has relied on oil and gas as the main drivers of economic growth. While this has led to rapid development of the country, especially during years of high oil prices, it has also ...

    • The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Santos, Miguel Angel; Barrios, Douglas; Taniparti, Nikita; Tudela Pye, Jorge; Lu, Jessie (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-03)
      After a large growth acceleration within the context of the commodity supercycle (2000-2015), Namibia has been grappling with three interrelated challenges: economic growth, fiscal sustainability, and inclusion. Accelerating ...