Selected Issues Papers

Building a Knowledge-Based Economy to Boost Growth: The Role of Export Diversification in Qatar

By Ken Miyajima

March 7, 2025

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Ken Miyajima. "Building a Knowledge-Based Economy to Boost Growth: The Role of Export Diversification in Qatar", Selected Issues Papers 2025, 017 (2025), accessed April 8, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229003544.018

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Summary

Motivated by Qatar’s Third National Development Strategy, this note discusses ingredients for boosting export diversification and growth potential. Drawing on cross-country experiences and empirical analyses, we shed light on how successful policies supported building human capital and economic complexity, the type of strategy that could best suite Qatar's circumstances, and pitfalls to avoid.

Subject: Comparative advantage, Export diversification, Export performance, Exports, Human capital, International trade, Labor

Keywords: Based economy, Comparative advantage, Eastern Europe, Economic complexity, Europe, Export diversification, Export performance, Exports, Global, Goods export, Human capital, Innovation, Korea's export mix, Lessons Qatar, Middle East, Qatar, Suite Qatar's circumstances, Third National Development Strategy

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