Applied Economist & Data Analyst Development Analytics | Public Policy | Data Science | Business Intelligence
I transform complex socioeconomic, financial, spatial and administrative data into reproducible evidence, decision-oriented dashboards and policy-relevant analytical products.
About | Research-labs | Featured-projects | Publications | Dashboards | Technical-stack | CV | Contact
I work at the intersection of applied economics, quantitative public policy, development analytics, data science and reproducible research. My portfolio focuses on evidence for inclusive development: poverty and social protection, spatial inequality, financial inclusion, structural transformation, public investment, monitoring and evaluation, and decision-oriented dashboards.
| Portfolio signal | Current focus |
|---|---|
| Professional identity | Applied Economist & Data Analyst |
| Research organization | Six research Labs built around capabilities and methods |
| Methods | Econometrics, spatial analysis, impact evaluation, forecasting, machine learning, BI |
| Open science | Reproducible repositories, validation reports, GitHub Pages, Zenodo and DOI when appropriate |
| Location | La Paz, Bolivia |
| Lab | Purpose | Selected repositories |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Economics Lab | Poverty, labor markets, financial development, structural transformation and productive capabilities | economic complexity, financial development, poverty and social protection |
| Research Methods Lab | Econometrics, spatial analysis, robustness, impact evaluation and modelling | SpatialEconometrics_education, SAMmultiplayer, data science requirements |
| Development Analytics Lab | Survey analytics, territorial indicators, vulnerability analysis and monitoring systems | poverty and social protection, credit risk, structural vulnerability, rural housing |
| Business Intelligence Lab | KPI systems, executive dashboards and analytical products for decision support | credit risk report, financial development dashboard |
| Data Science Lab | Python workflows, validation, automation, model documentation and technical reporting | data science requirements, rural housing, economic complexity |
| Open Science Lab | Documentation, validation, citation metadata, releases and reproducibility guides | economic complexity DOI release, poverty repository, rural housing repository |
| Project | Primary capability | Public product |
|---|---|---|
| Inclusive Credit Risk Analytics Bolivia | Credit portfolio diagnostics, forecasting, stress testing and executive reporting | public report |
| Economic Complexity and Structural Transformation in Latin America | RCA, ECI, PCI, Product Space, panel econometrics and Bolivia opportunity ranking | paper, DOI |
| Poverty, Informality and Social Protection in Latin America | Multi-source indicators, country-year panels, validation and dashboard communication | dashboard |
| Latin America Financial Development Lab | Financial development indicators, PCA, clustering and executive reports | public page |
| Structural Vulnerability in Latin America | Structural vulnerability indicators, econometric summaries and policy-facing figures | public page |
| Rural Bolivia Housing Analytics | Privacy-first household survey analytics, validation and reproducible reporting | public report |
| Data Science Requirements - Breast Cancer | Requirements engineering, validation and technical reporting with a public benchmark dataset | technical report |
- Cueto Tapia and Cueto Tapia (2025). Perspectives on Financial Development, Political Instability, and Economic Growth in Bolivia. Open publication.
- Cueto Tapia and Sinani Trujillo (2025). Social, Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Domestic Violence Against Women in Bolivia. Open publication.
- Cueto and Gomez (2016). Firm Migration toward Informality and Trade Openness. Open publication.
- Economic Complexity and Structural Transformation in Latin America. Paper PDF, repository, DOI.
- Data Science Requirements - Breast Cancer. Report PDF, repository.
- Estimates of Public Social Expenditure and Spending on Children and Adolescents. UDAPE / UNICEF. Open report.
- External Boom, Fiscal Policy and Long-run Growth in Bolivia: A CGE Approach. Partnership for Economic Policy. Open report.
| Dashboard or report | Purpose | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusive Credit Risk Analytics | Credit risk and financial inclusion reporting | Live public report | open report |
| Poverty and Social Protection dashboard | LAC poverty, informality and social protection indicators | Live static dashboard | open dashboard |
| Financial Development Lab | Financial development indicators and dashboard outputs | Live public page | open page |
| Structural Vulnerability | Development vulnerability outputs | Live public page | open page |
| Rural Bolivia Housing Analytics | Survey-based housing analytics | Live public report | open report |
| Economic Complexity dashboard | Regional complexity, Product Space and Bolivia opportunities | Technical content complete; GitHub Pages pending manual configuration | repository page file |
I do not link private raw data, restricted microdata, local caches or large unpublished datasets. Public assets are listed only when they are already part of a repository.
| Repository | Public asset | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Economic complexity flagship | Public sample data | data/sample |
| Economic complexity flagship | Data dictionary | DATA_DICTIONARY.md |
| Economic complexity flagship | Reproducibility guide | REPRODUCIBILITY.md |
| Breast cancer requirements project | Public benchmark dataset and report assets | repository |
Some older repositories are useful as methods or teaching material, but they remain separate from the main polished research portfolio.
| Resource | Current role |
|---|---|
| SpatialEconometrics_education | Spatial econometrics and education maps |
| SAMmultiplayer | Social Accounting Matrix scripts |
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| Programming | R, Python, Stata, SQL |
| Business Intelligence | Power BI, Tableau, KPI systems, executive dashboards |
| Spatial Analytics | ArcGIS, GIS, spatial econometrics |
| Research Engineering | GitHub, Quarto, LaTeX, Markdown, reproducible workflows |
| Data | Household surveys, administrative records, census data, country-year panels |
A privacy-reviewed web CV is available at monicact.github.io/cv.html. The original PDF is not published here because the reviewed source includes private contact data.
- Email: cueto.tapia.monica@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: Monica Cueto Tapia
- GitHub: MonicaCT
- ORCID: 0009-0006-5061-992X
- Google Scholar: profile