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Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
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Country diversification, product ubiquity, and economic divergence. Ricardo Hausmann, October 2010, Paper. "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 exports: there is a systematic relationship between the diversification of a country’s exports and the ubiquity of its products. We argue that this fact is not implied by current theories of international trade and show that it is not a trivial consequence of the heterogeneity in the level of diversification of countries or..." Link