The Datasets

There are three main sources of data in the current version of the Atlas:

IMF Quality Index data
The Atlas of Economic Complexity from Harvard's Growth Lab
And a curated set Capabilities, also called General Database in the Signs of Competitiveness research document

Exploration

Each of this datasets have their own completeness and research behind them and, happily, an exploration tool for them.

The IMF Quality Index can be explored directly in the IMF data website http://data.imf.org/exportquality
Harvard's Atlas of Economic Complexity provides their superb visualization tool at The Growth Lab at Harvard University. The Atlas of Economic Complexity. http://www.atlas.cid.harvard.edu.
The Capabilities General Database used for the research showcased here in the Competitive Intelligence Atlas for the Americas is explored through this very website.

Raw Versions

Datasets change. In fact, just as our research was ongoing, the growth lab published new versions for their data. The IMF could also change and/or update their data at any time and, with your help, we might find ways to update and improve the Capabilities database curated for this research.

You can find the raw data used in this version of the atlas, for each of the source datasets, through the following links:

Dataset	Filename	Use	Download
IMF	EQ_SITC4Plus_06-27-2019_13-27-27-71_timeSeries.csv	Both the Atlas and the Signs of Competitiveness paper use this dataset	Here
Harvard's CID v17	country_partner*.tab	Only the Atlas uses this dataset	Here
Harvard's CID v16	16.zip	Only the Signs of Competitiveness research uses this dataset	Here
OAS Capabilities	capabilities.zip	Both the Atlas and the Research use this dataset	Here

The Capabilities Dataset

8 information categories from different datasets

This dataset was constructed by the authors of the Signs of Competitiveness paper, and encompasses in one document, side by side, a number of variables. These are categorized by capability area as follows:

Capacities, with the following variables:
- Infrastructure
- Macroeconomic environment
- Health and primary education
- Higher education and training
- Efficiency of the goods market
- Efficiency of the labor market
- Development of the financial market
- Technological preparation
- Market size
- Business sophistication
- Innovation

The source of the information is the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum and in its raw form is available here

Our capabilities database includes the subset for the years 2007-2016.

Education
- Years of schooling
- PISA test results in mathematics

The source of information for the years of schooling is the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and for the PISA test, it is available from the OECD. Only the information for the years 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 is available.

Institutions
- Property rights
- Intellectual property protection
- Diversion of public funds
- Public trust in politicians
- Irregular payments and bribes
- Judicial Independence
- Favoritism in decisions of government officials
- Efficiency of government spending
- Burden of government regulation
- Efficiency of legal framework in settling disputes
- Efficiency of legal framework in challenging regs.
- Transparency of government policymaking
- Business costs of terrorism
- Business costs of crime and violence
- Organized crime
- Reliability of police services
- Ethical behavior of firms
- Strength of auditing and reporting standards
- Efficacy of corporate boards
- Protection of minority shareholders’ interests
- Strength of investor protection.

The source of the information is the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum cited above.

Investment
- Investment as a percentage of GDP
- Foreign Direct Investment as a percentage of GDP

The source of the information is The World Bank.

Macroeconomical
- GDP Per Capita (PPP 2011)
- Gini Coefficient

Also from The World Bank

Cultural dimensions of Hoefstede
- Power Distance
- Individualism (vs. Collectivism)
- Uncertainty Avoidance
- Masculinity (vs. Femininity)
- Long/Short-term Orientation
- Indulgence.

The source of the information is the Scores for the Hoefstede of IBM study (2010). The information is only available for the year 2010.

The economic complexity index (ECI) from The Atlas of EconmicComplexity datasets cited above.
- ECI
- PCI
Quality Of Exports

From the Hein Quality Index

Information Availability

As you can see, not all of the variables included in the capabilities database area available for all years. Furthermore, not all categories are available for every country and, for some countries, some variables in some categories are available, while some are not for a given year.

The following plot shows what percentage of variables are available per category, per year in the capabilities dataset:

This, however, is not sufficent to get an idea of information availability.

The following plot shows you how many countries, per category, have at least one variable in a given year. For your information, the full number of countries in the database, that is, member state of the OAS for which we have reported data, is 27.

As is immediatly evident, and please click on the category names to verify this, there are good, very full years for each category, and then there are those that dont do so well.

That is why we have designed the exploration system for the capabilities dataset for you to first pick a country, then pick a year, after that, we will pull the relevant information datapoints available at that intersection and present you with a plot.

As to which years are the best for which countries, consider the following heatmap. Here we show you, for a given year/country intersection, what percentage of all possible variables is present? Hover or click in any of the squares where a year and country intersect to see the exact percentage.

It is immediatly evident that the best years for analysis by this dataset, are 2007-2016 for most, but not all countries.

The IMF Quality vs. Export Data Correlations plot

This plot allows you to explore Pearson correlations of data from the Atlas of Economic Complexity Dataset, as they relate to the IMF Quality Index. By default, we show you Paraguay's correlations for the year 2007. But you can choose the year, the country and even a set of sectors to aggregate the export data and quality index, and see if each of the variables have a positive or negative relationship.

Sectors

Signs of Competitiveness

Competitiveness Policies for Inclussive Growth

A priorization proposal

What can be done to reduce the economic, productive, social and digital divides of our countries? How can we integrate those that feel excluded? How do we generate inlclusive economic growth and competitiveness?

What can be done to reduce the economic, productive, social and digital divides of our countries? How can we integrate those that feel excluded? How do we generate inclusive economic growth and competitiveness?

Taking into account the infrastructure and capabilities restrictions of our region's countries, how can we priorize the selection of competitiveness policies from so many options of possible reforms, in such a way that we implement those that have the largest impact on inclusive growth? What capacities must we generate in the region and within each country so that we are not excluded from new production pathways? What is the best way ahead for the inclusive growth of each country and what are the most adequate policies to implement in the short, medium and long term?

Download the report here