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Ecuador's economy has been characterized as a supplier
of raw materials in the international market while
importing goods and services with higher added value. The
constant and unforeseen changes in international commodity
prices, and its difference from the increasing prices of
products with higher value added and high technology, have
placed the Ecuadorian economy in a situation of unequal
exchange subject to the vagaries the world market (Exhibit
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Aware of this situation, the government of President
Rafael Correa, boosted from the start of a process
management changing pattern of productive specialization of
the economy that allows the Ecuador generate added
production in the context of building more value a
knowledge society.
Transform the productive matrix is one of the greatest
challenges in the country, which will allow Ecuador to
overcome the current generation model riches hub, inclusive
and based on natural resources, democratic, and inclusive
model based on knowledge and capacities and Ecuadorians.
In regard to what we call productive matrix, the
expression for the way society is organized to produce
certain goods and services is not limited to purely
technical or economic, but also has to do with the whole
interactions among social actors using the resources they
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have at their disposal to carry out productive activities.
In this set, which includes products, production processes
and the resulting social relations of these processes,
called productive matrix.
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Different combinations of these elements generate a
pattern of specialization. For example, Ecuador's economy
has been characterized by the production of commodities for
the international market, with little or no mechanization
and high concentration levels of earnings.
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These characteristics are determined that our primary
specialization pattern - exporter, the country could not
overcome throughout his Republican era.
The pattern of primary specialization - exporter of
Ecuador's economy has helped increase their vulnerability
to changes in commodity prices in the international market.
Ecuador is a highly unequal exchange situation by
increasing the differential between the prices of raw
materials and products with higher value added and high
technology. This forces the country to intensify the
exploitation of natural resources only to try to keep their
income and consumption patterns.
The purpose of this paper is to focus the productive
forces of our country through the optimal application of

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Secretara Nacional de Planificacin y Desarrollo, SENPLADES (2012)/ 1a edicin Quito
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Jaramillo Albuja, J. (2014) Perspectiva Econmica del Ecuador: La Matriz Productiva
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structural development that has been taking place the last
years. Ecuador has dragged the deficit in the trade balance
for five years, generating an instability due to the
outflow of foreign exchange (Exhibit 2). That is why a
change in the productive structure of the country from an
extractive commodity model to a value-added model on these
same raw materials is more than necessary. Today, there are
many questions about the guidelines that have been followed
to control the deficit and others on Matrix Production by
the Ecuadorian State. But down the road are realities that
are part of the landscape that have enterprise level, which
management skills should focus on looking for opportunities
on the reality that is not to analyze whether what has been
done is right or not.
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There are strategic sectors (Exhibit 3), and in them,
great opportunities to achieve greater openness productive
industries that can go meet the needs of the country in a
constant replacement of key importaciones.La is this
process is to focus the work on four major principles:
Diversification of production, value added generation,
import substitution, and Increased exports.
The government creates incentives(Exhibit 4) and to
prevent problems, approved the Law of Incentives for
Productive Sector, which aims to compensate for the

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Espinosa, R. (2013) Matriz Productiva: EL Momento Ideal es Ahora
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resignation of the ATPDEA Ecuador
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; Offset the reduction in
revenue that could have Ecuadorian products by establishing
unilateral sanctions or the imposition of tariffs, is the
goal of the draft Law on Incentives for Productive Sector.
Ecuador unilaterally renounced the Andean Trade Preferences
System (ATPDEA) and that could affect the sector.
In conclusion, the pattern of specialization primary
extractive exporter and has possibly been the most serious
problem of the Ecuadorian economy throughout the Republican
era. Get over effectively giving a total shift in the
structure of the country and allow the construction of the
country Ecuador Good Living it craves.
The government has taken important steps towards a new
equitable and inclusive economic and social order, strongly
driving the transformation of the pattern of specialization
of the economy. Substantial improvements in indicators of
capacity building in the context of education and the use
of connectivity technologies and telecommunications, have
also made progress in systemic productivity infrastructure
such as roads, scientific development, change of energy mix
and staffing of essential goods and services.
However, meeting this historic challenge demand deepen
the results achieved through coordinated and planned all

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Is a trade preference system by which the United States grants duty-free access to a wide range of
exports from four Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
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long-term efforts and all. The transformation of the
productive matrix generator will make the country and
exporting higher value added through the use of knowledge
and human talent, including new actors on the basis of an
adequate redistribution and equity, thus ensuring the Good
Life.