October 20, 2024
Confirmed by this Friday's GDP data, China's slowdown could need reversing to avoid the middle income trap.
August 9, 2023
If the Dominican Republic's economy continues the convergence velocity predicted by the IMF, it will avoid the middle income trap.
July 11, 2023
September 28, 2021
Hoping to avoid the middle income trap, China is taking the less typical socialist route through their "common prosperity" policies.
June 11, 2018
In many ways, a country can become good at football (soccer) and nurture a World Cup winner but it also could get snagged by the "middle income trap."
October 31, 2015
This week's economic news summary includes the diner's dilemma and marginal analysis, property rights in outer space, the Phillip's Curve and unemployment.
October 28, 2015
An economic development plan that is characterized by a top down command structure, China's thirteenth five-year plan contrasts with the market's bottom up.
September 19, 2015
Our economic news summary includes interest rates and the Fed, inequality and developing nations, space travel innovation and consumer spending changes.
September 14, 2015
While some high middle income economies have slowed down and then accelerated again, using World Bank criteria, China's economic growth is tough to predict.
September 13, 2015
Currently slowing down, China's economic growth might be challenged by the middle income trap that has caught Brazil but not Taiwan or Malaysia.