The Political Economy of Economic Complexity: Models, Data and Policy

This page contains all information and material for the workshop “The Political Economy of Economic Complexity: Models, Data and Policy” taught during the “Pre-Conference for Young Scholars”. Try to read into the core readings in advance, the other readings are optional.

General information about the course

Tentative course outline

Zip file with course readings

Lecture slides

Section 1: Introduction & motivation: drivers of socio-economic development

Section 2: Introducing the Economic Complexity Index (ECI)

Section 3: Practical exercises and assessment of the complexity approach

Section 4: Applications & discussion

Data sets for the practical exercises

Data on GDP (Source: World Bank)