Argentina’s green export potential: an analysis of the green production space
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https://doi.org/10.59339/de.v63i241.649Keywords:
Sustainable Development, Green Exports, Climate Change, ArgentinaAbstract
Is it possible to harmonize a green export development strategy with the acceleration of economic growth in Argentina, and towards which sectors should public policy efforts be directed in order to achieve this? To answer these questions, this article constructs the “Green” product-space at 6 digits of disaggregation of the harmonized system of international trade and analyzes the economic complexity associated with each of its products, as well as its connections with the already competitive sectors of the country. In this way, the economic benefits associated with products that directly provide environmental services or are key to activities that reduce gas emissions can be weighed. The main results are summarized as follows: i) green products, in general, are complex products and their development would accelerate the economic growth of the countries; ii) however, the green products closest to the current productive capacities of Argentina are of low complexity and with low contribution to economic growth; iii) these results would justify the exploration of costs and benefits of carrying out productive policies that maximize the complexity of the green export basket to be developed and minimize the productive effort to achieve it. To this end, different selection criteria are proposed, which result in 30 products that could be the starting point for a green export development strategy for a given country.
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