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The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Mapping Paths to Prosperity

By: Ricardo Hausmann,Cesar A. Hidalgo,Sebastian Bustos,Michele Coscia,Alexander Simoes

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The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Mapping Paths to Prosperity

By: Ricardo Hausmann,Cesar A. Hidalgo,Sebastian Bustos,Michele Coscia,Alexander Simoes

Maps capture data expressing the economic complexity of countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, offering current economic measures and as well as a guide to achieving prosperity Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products. The Atlas of Economic Complexity attempts to measure the amount of productive knowledge countries hold and how they can move to accumulate more of it by making more complex products. Through the graphical representation of the "Product Space," the authors are able to identify each country's "adjacent possible," or potential new products, making it easier to find paths to economic diversification and growth. In addition, they argue that a country's economic complexity and its position in the product space are better predictors of economic growth than many other well-known development indicators, including measures of competitiveness, governance, finance, and schooling. Using innovative visualizations, the book locates each country in the product space, provides complexity and growth potential rankings for 128 countries, and offers individual country pages with detailed information about a country's current capabilities and its diversification options. The maps and visualizations included in the Atlas can be used to find more viable paths to greater productive knowledge and prosperity.

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MIT Press

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0262525429

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9780262525428

Real Exchange Rates, Economic Complexity, and Investment

By: Steve Brito,Mr.Nicolas E Magud,Mr.Sebastian Sosa

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Real Exchange Rates, Economic Complexity, and Investment

By: Steve Brito,Mr.Nicolas E Magud,Mr.Sebastian Sosa

We show that the response of firm-level investment to real exchange rate movements varies depending on the production structure of the economy. Firms in advanced economies and in emerging Asia increase investment when the domestic currency weakens, in line with the traditional Mundell-Fleming model. However, in other emerging market and developing economies, as well as some advanced economies with a low degree of structural economic complexity, corporate investment increases when the domestic currency strengthens. This result is consistent with Diaz Alejandro (1963)—in economies where capital goods are mostly imported, a stronger real exchange rate reduces investment costs for domestic firms.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484354834

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Mi corazón nunca te olvidará

By: Sebastian Aranda

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Mi corazón nunca te olvidará

By: Sebastian Aranda

Es una historia romántica que habla de la depresión, de un joven que cruza su camino con una chica que es invisible para los demás. A partir de ahí, ella se vuelve el mayor misterio a resolver para él. En su intento por volverla a hacer visible, él comienza a arriesgar varios aspectos de su vida, incluyendo su propia cordura; mientras ella es olvidada por todos aquellos que la quieren, incluyendo su propia madre. Así que él se ve forzado a descifrar los secretos de su pasado, antes de que él también la olvide. Es una historia fácil de leer, la cual te atrapará, conforme vas conociendo, poco a poco, a los personajes, y vas viviendo, junto con ellos, cada uno de las experiencias y aventuras que tienen en su día a día, antes de llegar al día 100. A pesar de que es una historia ficticia, en ella se encuentran plasmadas experiencias de dolor, alegría y tristeza de personas reales. Por ello es una historia recomendable para jóvenes y adultos, ya que los jóvenes nos encontramos en este momento de nuestras vidas donde la depresión es algo que vivimos día a día Mientras que también sirve para que los padres entiendan y reconozcan que, muchas veces, los problemas emocionales de sus hijos pueden ser provocados desde la niñez, por familiares o, incluso, por los propios padres. Y que lo único que necesitan los jóvenes es alguien que los escuche y los quiera cuando su mundo se derrumba.

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199

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662455607

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9781662455605

Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe

How Ideology Influences the Content of Government Policies

By: Sebastian Hartmann

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Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe

How Ideology Influences the Content of Government Policies

By: Sebastian Hartmann

Sebastian Hartmann aims at answering the question whether socioeconomic policies implemented by governments are generally rather similar or whether their content actually varies with the ideological background of governments. In addition, he wants to find out whether government characteristics such as coalition or minority situations impact the degree of partisan policy-making. The author employs a new dataset of social and economic policies collected for several Western European countries. By conducting a wide range of empirical analyses and by using an innovative approach for analysing the policy output, he shows that ideology indeed matters. However, the degree of its influence is contingent upon structural characteristics of governments.

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359

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Springer

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365808197X

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Latecomer State Formation

Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America

By: Sebastian Mazzuca

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Latecomer State Formation

Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America

By: Sebastian Mazzuca

A major contribution to the field of comparative state formation and the scholarship on long-term political development of Latin America “Ambitious and rich. . . . A sweeping and general theory of state formation and detailed historical reconstruction of essential events in Latin American political development. It combines structural elements with a novel emphasis on the political incentives and bargaining that shaped the map we have today.”—Hillel David Soifer, Governance Latin American governments systematically fail to provide the key public goods for their societies to prosper. Sebastián Mazzuca argues that the secret of Latin America’s failure is that its states were “born weak,” in contrast to states in western Europe, North America, and Japan. State formation in post-Independence Latin America occurred in a period when capitalism, rather than war, was the key driver forging countries. In pursuing the short-term benefits of international trade, Latin American leaders created states with chronic weaknesses, notably patrimonial administrations and dysfunctional regional combinations. Mazzuca analyzes pathways leading to variations in country size and level of pacification: “port-led” state formation in Argentina and Brazil; “party-led” in Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay; and “lord-led” in Central America, Venezuela, and Peru.

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Yale University Press

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0300258615

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9780300258615

Left Behind

Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

By: Sebastian Edwards

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Left Behind

Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

By: Sebastian Edwards

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources—and a history of productivity and wealth—in recent decades the region has fallen further and further behind developed nations, surpassed even by other developing economies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. In Left Behind, Sebastian Edwards explains why the nations of Latin America have failed to share in the fruits of globalization and forcefully highlights the dangers of the recent turn to economic populism in the region. He begins by detailing the many ways Latin American governments have stifled economic development over the years through excessive regulation, currency manipulation, and thoroughgoing corruption. He then turns to the neoliberal reforms of the early 1990s, which called for the elimination of deficits, lowering of trade barriers, and privatization of inefficient public enterprises—and which, Edwards argues, held the promise of freeing Latin America from the burdens of the past. Flawed implementation, however, meant the promised gains of globalization were never felt by the mass of citizens, and growing frustration with stalled progress has led to a resurgence of populism throughout the region, exemplified by the economic policies of Venezuela’sHugo Chávez. But such measures, Edwards warns, are a recipe for disaster; instead, he argues, the way forward for Latin America lies in further market reforms, more honestly pursued and fairly implemented. As an example of the promise of that approach, Edwards points to Latin America's giant, Brazil, which under the successful administration of President Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula) has finally begun to show signs of reaching its true economic potential. As the global financial crisis has reminded us, the risks posed by failing economies extend far beyond their national borders. Putting Latin America back on a path toward sustained growth is crucial not just for the region but for the world, and Left Behind offers a clear, concise blueprint for the way forward.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226184803

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9780226184807

Limits of Tolerance

Freedom of Expression and the Public Debate in Chile

By: Sebastian Brett,Human Rights Watch (Organization)

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Limits of Tolerance

Freedom of Expression and the Public Debate in Chile

By: Sebastian Brett,Human Rights Watch (Organization)

History and Legal Norms

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Human Rights Watch

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1564321924

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European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World

Challenges and Opportunities

By: Sebastian Oberthür,Dennis Tänzler,Emily Wright,Gauri Khandekar

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European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World

Challenges and Opportunities

By: Sebastian Oberthür,Dennis Tänzler,Emily Wright,Gauri Khandekar

Contributing to the emerging literature on the geopolitical and foreign policy implications of decarbonisation and energy transition processes, this book sheds light on the future of the European Union’s (EU) external relations under decarbonisation. Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted in 2015, governments are committed to phasing out the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases over the coming decades. This book addresses the many questions around this process of decarbonisation through detailed analyses of EU external relations with six fossil-fuel exporting countries: Nigeria, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Qatar, and Canada. The authors systematically examine the six countries’ varying dependence on fossil fuels, the broader political and security context, current relations with the EU, and the potential for developing these towards decarbonisation. In doing so, they put forward a series of findings that should hold across varying circumstances and provide a steppingstone to enrich and inspire further research on foreign policy, external relations, and international relations under decarbonisation. The book also makes an important contribution to understanding the external implications of the 2019 European Green Deal. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of European environmental and climate policy, climate diplomacy, energy policy, foreign policy, and climate/energy geopolitics. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003183037, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Routledge

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1000541053

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Valuing Services in Trade

A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

By: Sebastian Saez,Daria Taglioni,Erik van der Marel,Claire H. Hollweg,Veronika Zavacka

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Valuing Services in Trade

A Toolkit for Competitiveness Diagnostics

By: Sebastian Saez,Daria Taglioni,Erik van der Marel,Claire H. Hollweg,Veronika Zavacka

This Toolkit provides a framework, guidelines, and set of practical tools to conduct an analysis and diagnostic of trade competitiveness in the services sector and to identify both the main constraints to improved competitiveness and the appropriate policy responses.

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World Bank Publications

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1464801568

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The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Mapping Paths to Prosperity

By: Ricardo Hausmann,Cesar A. Hidalgo,Sebastian Bustos,Michele Coscia,Alexander Simoes

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The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Mapping Paths to Prosperity

By: Ricardo Hausmann,Cesar A. Hidalgo,Sebastian Bustos,Michele Coscia,Alexander Simoes

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Book's by Sebastian Bustos

The Atlas of Economic Complexity

The Atlas of Economic Complexity

Real Exchange Rates, Economic Complexity, and Investment

Real Exchange Rates, Economic Complexity, and Investment

Mi corazón nunca te olvidará

Mi corazón nunca te olvidará

Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe

Partisan Policy-Making in Western Europe

Latecomer State Formation

Latecomer State Formation

Left Behind

Left Behind

Limits of Tolerance

Limits of Tolerance

European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World

European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World

Valuing Services in Trade

Valuing Services in Trade

The Atlas of Economic Complexity

The Atlas of Economic Complexity

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