Reflections on Catch-up: The Spread of Catch-up and the Middle-Income Trap

Jang-Sup Shin

Professor, National University of Singapore, Tel: +65-6516-6753, Fax: +65-6775-2646 ecssjs@nus.edu.sg

Nayer, Deepak (2013). Catch Up ― Developing Countries in the World Economy, Oxford University Press.

Lee, Keun (2013). Schumpetrian Analysis of Economic Catch-up ― Knowledge, Path-Creation, and the Middle-Income Trap, Cambridge University Press.

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