01109nam a2200145Ia 450000500170000008000180001724500560003526000250009130000100011652007670012658300210089365000200091494200120093499900170094620260716044044.0  a03.02.02 U582  aMiddle-income countries : a structural-gap approach  bUNaSantiagoCLc2012  a40 p.  aArgues 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.  c1/29/13kSANDRAW  aNATIONAL INCOME  cMmU582  c59559d59559