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Jeffrey Miyamoto is a research associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo.Middle-income economies: Slowdowns, traps and transitions
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The notion of a middle-income trap has generated much interest and discussion, but little consensus. There is no agreement on what the trap is or how long a country needs to be at the middle-income stage to be considered trapped. Much of the current discussion is about growth slowdowns, but is a slowdown the same as a trap? It is also possible that the trap does exist but we do not know what causes it.
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