Small Island Developing States generally adopt diversification as their primary development strategy, often with little … success. Nevertheless, there is no empirical study specifically focusing on the pattern of diversification of these countries … in relation to their development. The objective of this paper was to study the export diversification pattern by the …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …

determinants that explain the variation in export diversification and complexity across 189 countries from 1962 to 2018. Our …