Strengthening of the Regional Economics Research Group

The Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences of the University of Cuenca, through the Research Department, has developed a set of activities to contribute to the knowledge and design of development policies in a manner consistent with the national and regional, provincial and local reality; Monitoring economic dynamics and investigating the economic performance and obstacles that arise for it, offering intervention proposals that enhance the possibilities of local development. The research tasks of the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences of the University of Cuenca are in a restructuring process, hosting lines of research that respond to their academic tradition in the field of economic theory and its application to national reality, as well as its subnational geographical location. In this context, the so -called regional economy has been proposed as a research group, which is born with the purpose of economic studies aimed at understanding territorial and sectoral disparities and their interdependence with local economic development. This research group seeks to better understand the reality of economic disparities in Ecuador, both at the territorial and sector level, as well as implement public policy evaluation methodologies. This will provide a better understanding of the capacities of each territory to take advantage of public productive promotion policies, as well as the ability to be architects of their own economic destiny. In this order of things, this strengthening program will enhance the theoretical and methodological skills of the Regional Economy Research Group of the Faculty for the economic analysis of disparities and their incidence in Ecuador.