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According to Wikipedia, Ricardo Hausmann is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab and is a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and former Head of the . He co-introduced several regularly used concepts in economics including original sin, growth diagnostics, self-discovery, dark matter, the product space, and economic complexity.

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Ricardo Hausmann's Published Works

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Published Works

The global gender gap report (2006) (2696)
What you export matters (2005) (2589)
The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations (2007) (2236)
The building blocks of economic complexity (2009) (1916)
Economic Development as Self-Discovery (2002) (1843)
The global gender gap report. 2010. (2011) (1138)
Growth Accelerations (2004) (862)
Why Do Countries Float the Way They Float? (2000) (627)
Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Latin America (1996) (592)
The network structure of economic output (2011) (548)
Currency Mismatches, Debt Intolerance and Original Sin: Why They are Not the Same and Why it Matters (2003) (515)
Structural Transformation and Patterns of Comparative Advantage in the Product Space (2006) (485)
Growth Diagnostics ∗ (2004) (468)
The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context (1996) (428)
Other people's money : debt denomination and financial instability in emerging market economies (2005) (410)
The Structure of the Product Space and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage (2007) (393)
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (2011) (366)
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol? (2000) (315)
The global gender gap report 2007 (2007) (308)
DOOMED TO CHOOSE: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AS PREDICAMENT (2006) (285)
Financial Turmoil and Choice of Exchange Rate Regime (1999) (277)
Managing Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Volatility, Procyclicality, and Limited Creditworthiness (1996) (246)
An Alternative Interpretation of the &Apos;Resource Curse&Apos;: Theory and Policy Implications (2003) (239)
On the determinants of Original Sin: an empirical investigation (2003) (231)
Original Sin: The Pain, the Mystery, and the Road to Redemption (2002) (230)
Securing Stability and Growth in a Shock Prone Region: The Policy Challenge for Latin America (1996) (210)
Neighbors and the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international knowledge diffusion? (2014) (209)
Facing Up to Inequality in Latin America (1999) (177)
In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance (2002) (176)
Reconfiguring Industrial Policy: A Framework with an Application to South Africa (2008) (171)
Doing Growth Diagnostics in Practice: A 'Mindbook' (2008) (157)
The Long-Run Volatility Puzzle of the Real Exchange Rate (2004) (149)
Reforming Budgetary Institutions in Latin America: The Case for a National Fiscal Council (1999) (139)
Should There Be Five Currencies or One Hundred and Five (1999) (131)
South Africa's Export Predicament (2006) (129)
Growth Collapses (2006) (126)
Country Diversification, Product Ubiquity, and Economic Divergence (2010) (124)
Global Imbalances or Bad Accounting? The Missing Dark Matter in the Wealth of Nations (2006) (121)
Redemption or Abstinence? Original Sin, Currency Mismatches and Counter Cyclical Policies in the New Millennium (2011) (114)
The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011: Highlights (2011) (99)
The Global Gender Gap Index 2012 (2011) (95)
Is FDI a Safer Form of Financing? (2000) (93)
Debt levels, debt composition, and sovereign spreads in emerging and advanced economies (2013) (91)
Currency Mismatches, Debt Intolerance, and Original Sin (2007) (90)
Self-Discovery in a Development Strategy for El Salvador (2006) (88)
Theory and policy implications (2002) (88)
Explaining the prevalence, scaling and variance of urban phenomena (2016) (86)
Getting the diagnosis right (2006) (80)
The Missing Dark Matter in the Wealth of Nations and its Implications for Global Imbalances (2007) (80)
Banking Crises in Latin America (1996) (78)
Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America (1998) (74)
Is foreign direct investment a safer form of financing (2001) (74)
Macroeconomics of Capital Flows to Latin America: Experience and Policy Issues (1995) (71)
Why do countries borrow the way they borrow (2002) (69)
Empirical Confirmation of Creative Destruction from World Trade Data (2011) (67)
Prisoners of Geography (2001) (66)
Optimal tax and debt policy with endogenously imperfect creditworthiness (1996) (65)
The Global Gender Gap Report 2011: Rankings and Scores (2011) (65)
Saving Behavior in Latin America: Overview and Policy Issues (1997) (62)
U.S. AND GLOBAL IMBALANCES: CAN DARK MATTER PREVENT A BIG BANG? (2005) (58)
Macroeconomic Volatility and Economic Development (1998) (52)
Securing stability and growth in Latin America : policy issues and prospects for shock-prone economies (1996) (50)
Export Pioneers in Latin America (2012) (49)
Towards a Strategy for Economic Growth in Uruguay (2005) (48)
A network view of economic development (2008) (46)
The Product Space and its Consequences for Economic Growth (2007) (44)
Achieving Export-Led Growth in Colombia (2008) (44)
The new paradigm of economic complexity (2022) (44)
Democracy, decentralisation and deficits in Latin America (1998) (43)
Venezuela's growth implosion: A neo-classical story? (2001) (43)
Growth Diagnostics in Peru (2008) (42)
Inequality and the Family in Latin America (1999) (41)
Closing the gender gap in education: What is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers? (2014) (40)
Nature, Development, and Distribution in Latin America. Evidence on the Role of Geography, Climate, and Natural Resources (1998) (40)
Implied Comparative Advantage (2014) (38)
Growth Diagnostic: Peru (2008) (38)
The Challenge of Fiscal Adjustment in a Democracy: The Case of India (2004) (38)
Original Sin, Passthrough, and Fear of Floating (2001) (35)
Final Recommendations of the International Panel on ASGISA (2008) (35)
How Should Uganda Grow? (2014) (35)
Examining Beneficiation (2007) (34)
Final Recommendations of the International Panel on the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA) (2008) (33)
In Search of the Chains that Hold Brazil Back (2008) (32)
Economic Development and the Accumulation of Know-how (2016) (32)
Volatile Capital Flows: Taming Their Impact on Latin America (1996) (31)
Good Credit Ratios, Bad Credit Ratings: The Role of Debt Structure (2004) (28)
Justice Delayed: Judicial Reform in Latin America (1998) (28)
Wanted : world financial stability (2000) (26)
Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps? (2011) (25)
Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda (2015) (25)
The Other Hand: High Bandwidth Development Policy (2008) (25)
The Argentine Collapse: Hard Money’s Soft Underbelly (2002) (24)
Structural Transformation in Ecuador (2010) (22)
IDA in UF : on the benefits of changing the currency denomination of concessional lending to low-income countries (2003) (22)
Why the US Current Account Deficit is Sustainable (2006) (22)
China and the Global Economy: Medium-Term Issues and Options - a Synthesis Report (2006) (21)
What's Wrong with International Financial Markets? (2000) (21)
Make or Buy? Approaches to Financial Market Integration (1997) (21)
Final recommendations of the International Panel on Growth (2007) (20)
1. The Pain of Original Sin (2019) (20)
The Impact of Inflation on Budgetary Discipline (1995) (20)
Policies for Achieving Structural Transformation in the Caribbean: Private Sector Development Discussion Paper #2 (2009) (19)
Smart Development Banks (2019) (18)
Marriage, education and assortative mating in Latin America (2014) (17)
Courting FDI: is competition bad? (2001) (17)
Promoting savings in Latin America (1997) (16)
Preventing Crisis and Contagion: Fiscal and Financial Dimensions (1999) (16)
Getting it Right: What to Reform in International Financial Markets (2000) (16)
Growing Pains: Binding Constraints to Productive Investment in Latin America (2009) (16)
International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration (1999) (15)
Structural Transformation in Chile (2007) (15)
Structural Transformation and Economic Growth in Latin America (2011) (15)
Global imbalances or bad accounting ? (2006) (15)
Government spending and income distribution in Latin America (1993) (15)
In Search of the Black Swan: Analysis of the Statistical Evidence of Electoral Fraud in Venezuela (2011) (14)
The Global Gender Gap Index 2007 (2007) (14)
The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009 (2009) (14)
International Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations (2012) (13)
Latin America: No Fireworks, No Crisis? (2000) (13)
Growth Diagnostic: Belize (2007) (12)
Measuring Venezuelan emigration with Twitter (2018) (12)
The Implications of Dark Matter for Assessing the US External Imbalance (2006) (12)
The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) (2009) (12)
Special Economic Zones in Panama: Technology Spillovers from a Labor Market Perspective (2016) (12)
Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development (2018) (12)
Machine-learned patterns suggest that diversification drives economic development (2018) (11)
Other People's Money (2005) (10)
The dynamics of the gender gap: how do countries rank in terms of making marriage and motherhood compatible with work. (2009) (10)
Horrible Trade-offs in a Pandemic: Lockdowns, Transfers, Fiscal Space, and Compliance (2020) (10)
WHY DID VENEZUELAN GROWTH COLLAPSE (2015) (10)
The Proliferation of Sovereigns: Are There Lessons for Integration? (2002) (10)
Economic Growth: Shared Beliefs, Shared Disappointments? (2006) (9)
Towards a Sustainable and Efficient State: The Development Agenda of Belize (2010) (9)
Will Volatility Kill Market Democracy (1997) (9)
Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the Eighties (1995) (9)
The Pain of Original Sin, The Mystery of Original Sin, and Original Sin: The Road to Redemp-tion (2004) (9)
Closing the gender gap in education (2011) (9)
The Valuation of Hidden Assets in Foreign Transactions: Why “Dark Matter” Matters (2007) (9)
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare (2022) (9)
9. The Mystery of Original Sin (2019) (8)
Global finance from a Latin American viewpoint (2000) (8)
Why is Inflation Skewed? A Debt and Volatility Story (1994) (8)
Economic Complexity in Panama: Assessing Opportunities for Productive Diversification (2016) (8)
Growth Diagnostic: Paraguay (2007) (8)
The dollarization debate: is it over? (2004) (8)
Shifting Gears: A Growth Diagnostic of Panama (2016) (8)
The Redesign of the International Financial Architecture from a Latin American Perspective: Who Pays the Bill? (2000) (8)
Chapter 9. Venezuela’s Growth Implosion: A Neoclassical Story? (2003) (8)
In Search of the Black Swan: (2011) (7)
Venezuela Before Chavez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse (2013) (7)
Huntington and Hispanics (2004) (7)
Jordan: The Elements of a Growth Strategy (2019) (7)
Panama beyond the Canal: Using Technological Proximities to Identify Opportunities for Productive Diversification (2016) (6)
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle (2019) (6)
FIRST DRAFT DOOMED TO CHOOSE : INDUSTRIAL POLICY AS PREDICAMENT (2006) (5)
Institutions vs. Social Interactions in Driving Economic Convergence: Evidence from Colombia (2017) (5)
Place-Specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence From Mexico (2021) (5)
Why is Chiapas Poor? (2015) (5)
Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence: South Africa (2007–2020) (2022) (4)
Baffled by Brazil (2002) (4)
Inferring Macroeconomic Complexity from Country-Product Network Data (2010) (4)
Appraising the Economic Potential of Panama: Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth (2017) (4)
The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : The Impact of the Structure of the Product Space (2006) (4)
Adoption, Management, and Abandonment of Multiple Exchange Rate Regimes with Import Control: the Case of Venezuela (1997) (4)
Managing Terms of Trade Volatility (1999) (4)
Self-Discovery in a Development Strategy for (2006) (4)
How to make the next big thing. (2013) (4)
A Roadmap for Investment Promotion and Export Diversification: The Case of Jordan (2020) (4)
Special Economic Zones in Panama: A Critical Assessment (2016) (4)
The COVID-19 pandemic: a letter to G20 leaders (2020) (3)
Why They Are Not the Same and Why It Matters (2007) (3)
10. Original Sin: The Road to Redemption (2019) (3)
Challenges Ahead (2019) (3)
"Schooling Can't Buy Me Love": Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America (2010) (3)
Determining the Differences that Matter: Development and Divergence in US States Over 1850-2010 (2018) (2)
Affective Neuroscience meets Labor Economics : Assessing Non-Cognitive skills on Late Stage Investment on at-Risk Youth ∗ (2016) (2)
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm (2020) (2)
How to weaken Russian oil and gas strength. (2022) (2)
Por Que Chiapas Es Pobre? (Why is Chiapas Poor?) (2015) (2)
Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: ‘Smart Sanctioning’ Russian Oil and Gas (2022) (2)
Growth Diagnostic: Mexico (2009) (2)
Career Dynamics and Gender Gaps Among Employees in the Microfinance Sector (2018) (2)
Pakistan: Competitiveness and Structural Transformation in Pakistan (2010) (2)
Introduction: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies (2019) (2)
The Low Productivity Trap: Chiapas Growth Diagnostics (2015) (1)
A Growth Diagnostic of Namibia (2022) (1)
Yet it Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin (2022) (1)
Reform of Social Service Delivery Systems in Latin America 4 (2004) (1)
Place-specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico (2018) (1)
From Surpluses to Deficits: The Effect of Dark Matter on Latin America (2014) (1)
Towards a Prosperous and Productive Chiapas: Institutions, Policies, and Public-Private Dialog to Promote Inclusive Growth (2016) (1)
Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires (2020) (1)
Preliminary draft Courting FDI : Is Competition Bad ? (0)
Western Australia Growth Perspective (2020) (0)
Nature, Development and Distribution in Latin America: Evidence on the Role of Geography, Climate and Natural Resources (1998) (0)
RHE volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1997) (0)
WIDER Working Paper 2017/117-Career dynamics and gender gaps among (2017) (0)
Lessons from the Mexico Crisis (1998) (0)
Realization of the oil rent (the): a preliminary study of the venezuelan example 1946-1979 (1981) (0)
Discussion of 'Academic Views of Capital Flows: An Expanding Universe', 'Capital Flows and Exchange Rates' and 'Explaining Global Market Turmoil: A Fresh Prespective on its Origins and Nature' (1999) (0)
A Simple Theory of Economic Development at the Extensive Industry Margin (2022) (0)
The links between agriculture, international trade, diversification and economic development (2015) (0)
The Composition of Knowledge and Long-Run Growth (2015) (0)
The Economic Complexity of Namibia: A Roadmap for Productive Diversification (2022) (0)
Loreto’s Hidden Wealth: Economic Complexity Analysis and Productive Diversification Opportunities (2021) (0)
Machine-learned patterns suggest that diversiﬁcation drives economic development Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2019) (0)
RHE volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1996) (0)
Looking for Virtue in Remoteness:Policy Recommendations for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Peruvian Amazonia (2023) (0)
Is FDI a Safer Form of Investment (2000) (0)
Overcoming Remoteness in the Peruvian Amazonia: A Growth Diagnostic of Loreto (2022) (0)
Ethical and economic imperatives in confronting Covid-19: a view from Latin America (2020) (0)
"Schooling Can't Buy Me Love: The Plight of Educated Women in Latin America" 1 (2010) (0)
Reforming the Trade Regime (2013) (0)
Exchange Rate Policy and Liability Dollarization: What do the Data Reveal about Causality? (2010) (0)
Comment on Hausmann and Rodrik Francisco Rodríguez (2005) (0)
Inter-American Development Bank (2002) (0)
CHAPTER 9 CHALLENGES AHEAD (2018) (0)
The Crisis Gives the US New Financial Power (2008) (0)
Global Economy and Development Conference “ What Works in Development ? Thinking Big and Thinking Small ” High Bandwidth Development Policy (2008) (0)
Raising South Africa's Speed Limit (2014) (0)
The growing current account surpluses in East Asia: the effect of dark matter assets (2008) (0)
Gestion de la inestabilidad de la relacion de intercambio (1999) (0)
VIS keynote address (2016) (0)
Municipal money managers - local governments take on financial responsability (1998) (0)
A New Era at the Inter-American Development Bank: Six Recommendations for the New President (2006) (0)
Smart Development Banks (2020) (0)
1 Smart Development Banks (2019) (0)
Assessing rural productive capabilities and identifying potential products by municipality (2018) (0)

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