Alternative strategies to avoid middle-income trap: reform in turkey's higher education

Will China Avoid the Middle-Income Trap?

This paper employs a historical approach to address whether a country can avoid the middle-income trap. The development of the manufacturing sector and technological capacities are important for a country to avoid the middle-income trap. South Korea avoided the middleincome trap through developing the manufacturing sector. Argentina became a middle-income country by exporting agricultural goods...

INCOME CONTINGENT LOANS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION International Reform

APEC and the Middle Income Trap

 The Middle Income Trap has come to dominate headlines and policy discussions in the Asia-Pacific. Recent research suggests that growth past a certain threshold requires a qualitative ‘shift’ as economies transition from labourand capital-intensive growth to productivityand technology-driven growth. However, while more and more countries have attained middle income levels, very few have been a...

Income Distribution Effects of a Finnish Work Incentive Trap Reform

The present study concentrates on the income distribution effects of A Finnish Work Incentive Trap Reform started in 1996. I estimate how the reforms made have affected income levels and income inequality the distribution of economic wellbeing. I look at the effects both without and with behavioral response. The data used is the Income Distribution Statistics of Statistics Finland from the year...

Income Distribution Effects of a Finnish Work Incentive Trap Reform

The present study concentrates on the income distribution effects of A Finnish Work Incentive Trap Reform started in 1996. I estimate how the reforms made have affected income levels and income inequality the distribution of economic wellbeing. I look at the effects both without and with behavioral response. The data used is the Income Distribution Statistics of Statistics Finland from the year...