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080 _a03.02.02 U582
245 _aMiddle-income countries : a structural-gap approach
260 _bUN
_aSantiagoCL
_c2012
300 _a40 p.
520 _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.
583 _c1/29/13
_kSANDRAW
650 _aNATIONAL INCOME
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_mU582
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