Asia and the Middle-Income Trap

This book sets outs the conceptual underpinnings of the Middle-Income Trap and explores the various ways it can be defined. It also focuses on the debate surrounding the Middle-Income Trap which questions the appropriate institutional and policy settings for middle-income countries to enable them to continue past the easy phase of economic growth.

List of contents

Preface
1. Asia and the Middle-Income Trap: An Overview
2. The Middle-Income Trap Turns 10
3. Resilience and Escaping Development Traps: Lessons for Asian-Pacific Economies
4. Can China Rise to High Income?
5. Is Indonesia Trapped in the Middle?
6. India: Escaping Low-Income Traps and Averting Middle-Income Ones
7. Institutional Quality and Growth Traps
8. Avoiding "Tiger" Traps: How Human Capital Can Propel Countries beyond Middle-Income Status in East Asia
9. Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Trade, Investment and Innovation

Summary

This book sets outs the conceptual underpinnings of the Middle-Income Trap and explores the various ways it can be defined. It also focuses on the debate surrounding the Middle-Income Trap which questions the appropriate institutional and policy settings for middle-income countries to enable them to continue past the easy phase of economic growth.

Product details

• Authors: Francis E. Basu Das Hutchinson
• Assisted by: Sanchita Basu Das (Editor), Francis E Hutchinson (Editor), Francis E. Hutchinson (Editor), Hutchinson Francis E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138580671
• ISBN: 978-1-138-58067-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: PAFTAD Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Ethnic Studies, Economics, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Economic theory & philosophy, International Economics, Social and cultural history, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Economic theory and philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General