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Hi Paul,
Thanks for your interest in the project! To explain a few things... the ECI
ranking of countries and PCI ranking of products is based entirely on what
products a country exports and how ubiquitous they may be. It doesn't take
into account the sophistication of the product or the factories required to
produce them, so often times our anecdotal thoughts of what might make more
"sense" might not be corroborated by the data we are using. Thus a highly
ranked country by ECI is one that not only exports many of the more
ubiquitous products but also the rare ones that very few other countries
export. In the case of the 2011 data Russia happens to have a higher
complexity than Brazil.
Please take a look at this paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705545/ for a more detailed
explanation of the calculations used.
Hope this helps!
- alex
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:02 PM, pantom [email protected] wrote:
Writing this here only because I didn't see a way to contact anyone on the
MIT ECI site. I wanted to know why cars have a positive ECI index but
planes, helicopters and spacecraft have a negative ECI index number. I
looked into this because I found it weird that Brazil was ranked so much
lower than Russia, knowing that Embraer exports some decent planes. (Not a
Brazilian, no national pride involved, so don't worry about that. Just
wondering. Also not a rocket scientist, although given there are probably a
few over at MIT I wonder what they might think of this ranking?)Thanks and Regards,
Paul Antompietri
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/17
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Thanks for the quick reply, and will read that. Interesting approach you
have.
Regards,
Paul Antompietri
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Alex Simoes [email protected]:
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your interest in the project! To explain a few things... the ECI
ranking of countries and PCI ranking of products is based entirely on what
products a country exports and how ubiquitous they may be. It doesn't take
into account the sophistication of the product or the factories required to
produce them, so often times our anecdotal thoughts of what might make more
"sense" might not be corroborated by the data we are using. Thus a highly
ranked country by ECI is one that not only exports many of the more
ubiquitous products but also the rare ones that very few other countries
export. In the case of the 2011 data Russia happens to have a higher
complexity than Brazil.Please take a look at this paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705545/ for a more detailed
explanation of the calculations used.Hope this helps!
- alex
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:02 PM, pantom [email protected] wrote:
Writing this here only because I didn't see a way to contact anyone on
the
MIT ECI site. I wanted to know why cars have a positive ECI index but
planes, helicopters and spacecraft have a negative ECI index number. I
looked into this because I found it weird that Brazil was ranked so much
lower than Russia, knowing that Embraer exports some decent planes. (Not
a
Brazilian, no national pride involved, so don't worry about that. Just
wondering. Also not a rocket scientist, although given there are
probably a
few over at MIT I wonder what they might think of this ranking?)Thanks and Regards,
Paul Antompietri
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub<
https://github.com/alexandersimoes/oec/issues/17>
.Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/17#issuecomment-38460270
.
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