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Significant debates exist regarding the empirical validity of the "middle-income trap." [14] Other economists either find that there is no middle income trap [15] or claim that debates about a "middle-income trap" appear anachronistic: middle-income countries have exhibited higher growth rates than all others since the mid-1980s. [16]
NICs are countries whose economies have not yet reached a developed country's status but have, in a macroeconomic sense, outpaced their developing counterparts. Such countries are still considered developing nations and only differ from other developing nations in the rate at which an NIC's growth is much higher over a shorter allotted time period compared to other developing nations. [3]
The World Development Report (WDR) is an annual report published since 1978 by the World Bank. Each WDR provides in-depth analysis of a specific aspect of economic development . Past reports have considered such topics as agriculture, youth, equity, public services delivery, the role of the state, transition economies , labour, infrastructure ...
The high-income trap refers to the phenomenon of slower growth in most high-income, developed countries compared to lower-income countries. [1] [2] [3] Some economists argue that there is more evidence for a high-income trap than the middle-income trap. [4] Among the countries said to experience this trap are Taiwan [5] and Japan. [6]
Lower middle income 38.12% 2022 2.95 2015 2.953 2015 Turkmenistan: Central Asia: Upper middle income 47.99% 2022 2.72 1993 2.404 1998 Timor-Leste: South-eastern Asia: Lower middle income 46.30% 2022 4.04 2014 4.045 2014 Tonga: Polynesia: Upper middle income 48.59% 2022 3.18 2015 3.965 2021 Trinidad and Tobago: Caribbean
The paper opens by observing that in the United States almost one half of children born to low income parents become low income adults, four in ten in the United Kingdom, and one-third in Canada. The paper goes on to observe that rich children also tend to become rich adults—four in ten in the U.S. and the U.K., and as many as one-third in ...
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development.Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides access to approximately 1,600 indicators for 217 economies, with some time series extending back more than 50 years.
World Inequality Report is a report by the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics that provides estimates of global income and wealth inequality based on the most recent findings compiled by the World Inequality Database (WID). WID, also referred to as WID.world, is an open source database, that is part of an international ...