The building blocks of economic complexity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10570-10575

  Hidalgo, César A ^a   Hausmann, Ricardo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INCOME; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMMERCE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, ECONOMIC;

EID: 67649786923     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900943106     Document Type: Article

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