Middle-income countries : a structural-gap approach
Middle-income countries : a structural-gap approach
- SantiagoCL UN 2012
- 40 p.
Argues that constraints and challenges associated with development must not be treated as related in a linear fashion to countries' per capita income levels. Proposes fine-tuning the approach and complementing the per capita income criterion with a new perspective that addresses the structural gaps that constrain the development of middle-income countries (in terms of inequality and poverty, investment and saving, productivity and innoVation, infrastructure, education, health, fiscality, gender and the environment. Recommends opening up a political dialogue among countries, in order to identify ways of dealing with structural gaps by order of priority, with a view to establishing the most appropriate policy mechanism and strategic working modalities.
NATIONAL INCOME
03.02.02 U582
Argues that constraints and challenges associated with development must not be treated as related in a linear fashion to countries' per capita income levels. Proposes fine-tuning the approach and complementing the per capita income criterion with a new perspective that addresses the structural gaps that constrain the development of middle-income countries (in terms of inequality and poverty, investment and saving, productivity and innoVation, infrastructure, education, health, fiscality, gender and the environment. Recommends opening up a political dialogue among countries, in order to identify ways of dealing with structural gaps by order of priority, with a view to establishing the most appropriate policy mechanism and strategic working modalities.
NATIONAL INCOME
03.02.02 U582