RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE DEPENDENCY THEORY

From the historical structuralist perspective, it can be argued that, since Ecuador’s independence, its economy has played a peripheral role in the international economic scenario due to its internal economic structures. Therefore, Ecuador produces labor-intensive, low-tech primary products and imports high-value-added industrialized goods. In theoretical terms, Ecuador exports primary goods to supply the industry of the countries of the center. To fulfill the objective of the research, a documen-tary and non-intrusive analysis is carried out, which includes scientific articles in Scopus and WoS indexed journals. Where it is concluded that Ecuador must develop policies for the formation of human capital from an educational and cultural revo-lution that enhances the capacities of the population and facilitates social mobility from structural changes in the productive export sector and in the technological structures of the Ecuador and that it must follow a development strategy based on the generation of an endogenous technological core.