Quantifying the Robustness of Countries’ Competitiveness by Network-Based Methods

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(Color online) The decrease of the counties and products scores induced by individually reducing the exports of countries by 5% for FCM and MR, as a function of the countries as rank in their respective method. (a) Change of the fitness scores (in FCM) of countries. (b) Change of the countries scores (in MR). (c) Change of the complexity (FCM) of products. (d) Change of the products scores (MR). Note that in the dataset, we have 263 countries (or zones) and 988 product categories. However, in the four panels, we only show the snapshot results of some competitive countries and complex product because the influence of other countries and products is much small.

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