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Level:II
Date: 04/02/2015
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ESSAY
TOPIC: PRODUCTION MATRIX CHANGE IN ECUADOR
The Ecuadorian economy has been characterized at the same time to be supplying
of matters cousins in the international market it is importer of goods and services.
The change of the productive womb, is a transformation that is wanted to implant in
Ecuador through the knowledge, the human talent, the substitution of imports and
the development of exports; with the implementation of high technology and value
added to the products to combat the inequality in the world market. (Secretaria
Nacional de Planificacin y Desarrollo, 2014)
The transformation of the productive womb will allow the step to the specialization
primary exporter. As well as the invigoration of the human talent and the
biodiversity; for it is needed to know it the technical level and the Ecuadorian
workers' current professional, this change will allow to generate wealths with the
use of the capacities abilities and the Ecuadorian population's knowledge,
necessary in the industries of the country. (Constitucin Politica del Ecuador ,
2008)
The national government outlines to transform the handling of the economy and
logar an insert in the world With the Substitution of imports with goods and services
that we already take place. With the development to the exports and the diversified
production of finished products of added bigger value, to enlarge the international
destinations. (Luna, 2013)
Ecuador Times.-the managing director of the Matrix Productive Change of the
Ministry of Production, Diego Borja, said that an amount of between $ 50,000 and
$ 60,000 million are required in investment in order to change the matrix. Borja
revealed that what we want is, in a considerable time, to stop exporting raw
materials and being a major producer and exporter of raw materials with valueadded

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Aggregation of value in the existent production by means of the incorporation of
advanced technology will allow New generation systems and distribution of the
wealth. Also, changing the production model also poses increasing exports of the
most representative Ecuadorian products, but adding value, ie, processing.
(Secretaria Nacional de Planificacin y Desarrollo, 2014).
Other important points in the change of the productive matrix are:Electric
Energy to export
The Ecuadorian government intends to increase the production of clean electricity
for greater local and regional development. To this end it has ordered the
construction of eight hydroelectric: Mandariacu and Toachi Pilatn (in the province
of Pichincha), Mazar, San Francisco Quijo and Mines (Canar) Advertise Blower
(Morona Santiago), Delsitanisagua (Zamora Chinchipe) and Coca Codo Sinclair
(Sucumbios and Orellana), involving an investment of about 5,000 billion providing
2,800 megawatts. At the time, the "peak demand" of national electricity amounted
to 3,400 megawatts, according to industry officials.
With the contribution of hydro thermal generation that pollutes the environment it
involves higher costs. "We are an oil producing country, we have every right to
generate electricity with oil, but we decided to go for renewable energy,
environmentally friendly energy," the vicepresident.
Retrieved:http://www.andes.info.ec/en/news/what-change-production-matrixecuador.html
Investment in education and technology
Ecuador aims to achieve a transformation of an "economy of finite to infinite
resources, that is, an economy not based on material goods but one that depends
on knowledge and human talent. Thus, it has invested in the improvement of
primary, secondary and higher education. For the latter, the government spends
about 2% of gross domestic product (GDP), that Ecuador is located above all the

nations of the region and countries such as Germany (0.7%), Canada (0.9%),
United States (0.9%), Belgium and France (1%), Norway (1.2%), Australia and the
Netherlands (1.3%), Finland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (1, 4%) and
Switzerland (1.6%). retrieved. Retrieved:http://www.andes.info.ec/en/news/whatchange-production-matrix-ecuador.html

public agency of Ecuador and South

America
Companies that operate and/or the ones that want to invest in Ecuador have a
challenge: to align with the President Rafael Correas agenda. This agenda
involves some challenges of coordination built up as a benefit of the productive
matrix in the country, which focuses on strengthening the local production,
reducing imports in raw material as much as in finished products. In circles closed
to the Government, it has been said that it is the time of the foreigner investment
but in the practice, companies can find some difficulties leading them to enlist in
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matrix.http://www.dmasillorenteycuenca.com/publico/140224_dmasi_Ecuador_chal
lenge_of_the_import_substitution_ENG.pdf
The Ecuadorian economy is based on the extraction of natural resources and its
export is also sensitive to the changes in the prices in consequence the economy
in the country is repressed. With the change of the productive womb it is looked for
to open new doors to the country that you/they allow to improve the economy and
the lifestyle of the citizens. With the measures that are being taken, the substitution
of imports, the restriction of useless importations,it is believed that until 2017, more
than 6 thousand million dollars of imports will be replaced.

BIBLIOGRAPHY / LINKOGRAPHY
Constitucin Politica del Ecuador . (2008). Quito.
Luna, L. (2013). El cambio de la matriz productiva. Quito.
Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir. (03 de 08 de 2014). Buen Vivir; Plan Nacional. Obtenido de
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Secretaria Nacional de Planificacin y Desarrollo. (8 de 08 de 2014). SEMPLADES. Obtenido de
http://www.planificacion.gob.ec/wpcontent/uploads/downloads/2013/01/matriz_productiva_WEBtodo.pdf
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http://www.ecuadortimes.net/2013/07/24/60000-million-in-investments-to-change-productionmatrix/.