TY - JOUR
T1 - The trapped dragon
T2 - A province-by-province analysis of the middle-income trap in China
AU - Ramasamy, Bala
AU - Zhang, Jiarui
AU - Au, Alan K.M.
AU - Yeung, Matthew
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - China has been a prime candidate in the study of the middle-income trap (MIT), with inconclusive results. In this article, we pursue the question at a provincial level, and identify those provinces that are, or will be, trapped and those that have escaped. The 10 provinces identified as trapped are: Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Shaan’xi, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Hebei. Productivity is found to be the most obvious reason behind a trapped province.
AB - China has been a prime candidate in the study of the middle-income trap (MIT), with inconclusive results. In this article, we pursue the question at a provincial level, and identify those provinces that are, or will be, trapped and those that have escaped. The 10 provinces identified as trapped are: Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Shaan’xi, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Hebei. Productivity is found to be the most obvious reason behind a trapped province.
KW - China
U2 - 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.01
DO - 10.22459/ag.27.01.2020.01
M3 - Journal
SN - 1322-1833
VL - 27
SP - 5
EP - 32
JO - Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform
JF - Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform
IS - 1
ER -