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middle income traps

middle income traps is the plural of middle income trap.

Meaning of middle income trap

Noun

middle income trap (plural middle income traps)

  1. The situation where a country that attains a certain income gets stuck at that level, being unable to compete with other more developed economies in the high-value-added market.
    • Thailand and Malaysia are hemmed in by the so-called "middle-income trap", which suggests that while countries can move up from the ranks of the very poor, moving further forward is more complex, as competitiveness falls off and costs for investors increase.2010 December 23, Simon Roughneen, “Vietnam: a development success story?”, in The Guardian

Questions about middle income traps

What is middle income traps the plural of?
Middle income traps is the plural of middle income trap.

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