Territorial Growth in Ecuador: The Role of Economic Sectors

Rodrigo Mendieta Muñoz and Nicola Pontarollo

No JRC103628, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: Ecuador is a developing country characterised by severe territorial disparities, reflected in a heterogeneous economic and social geography that risk to undermine a future balanced development. The paper analyses for the first time the impact of main economic sectors on subnational growth process in the context of the "Changing Productive Matrix" policy objective, which aims to achieve productive diversification based on adding value through a deconcentration the production from the existing poles to the whole territory. The estimation is performed using new data provided by Central Bank of Ecuador for period 2007-2014 through a panel econometric technique. The results prove that, despite the strategy aimed at changing the productive matrix pushed by the government, this process is far to be completed. In particular the country is too much focussed into low productive sectors which depress economic growth and the manufacture and financial services sectors are too much concentrated in few areas, preventing their possible positive effect into the whole economy.

Keywords: Subnational growth; Ecuador; Panel Spatial Econometrics; Economic Sectors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 O4 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2016-11
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