Answering This Question: What Does Country X Export? Now Easy
January 20, 2020
Economic complexity is not the bane of college fresh persons. Nope. Investors, New Age snake oil vendors, and quick-buck artists need to answer questions like “What does Peru export?” Answering the question requires work, including interacting with the wonderful resources of online government agencies and non governmental organizations. Now you can answer the Peru question as well as exports by any other country with a mouse click. Head over to the tree map visualization tool from the Observatory of Economic Complexity. You will find the Web system at this link. Data are not real time, but, for now, the reports are free. Hours of fun, just like those cram sessions at university for the Econ 101 mid term.
Stephen E Arnold, January 20, 2020