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REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
卷 25, 期 3, 页码 1711-1740出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rode.12775
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middle‐ income; growth; technology adoption
This paper highlights the existence of a middle-income trap in the Middle East and North Africa region, with economic growth rates significantly lower than that in East Asia and the Pacific region, and tending to drop at earlier income levels. The study also reveals a relatively slow pace of technology adoption in the region, with slower adoption linked to lower economic growth rates.
This paper documents the existence of a middle-income trap for the Middle East and North Africa region and contrasts the evidence with that of the East Asia and Pacific region. The results are twofold. First, nonparametric regressions show that the average rate of economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa has not only been significantly lower than that in the East Asia and Pacific region, but has also tended to drop at an earlier level of income. Second, econometric results point to the Middle East and North Africa having experienced a relatively slow pace of technology adoption in general-purpose technologies and that a slower adoption pace of technology is associated with significantly lower economic growth. The paper concludes that barriers to the adoption of general-purpose technologies related to the lack of contestability in key sectors constitute an important channel of transmission for the middle-income trap.
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