Cover -- Trapped In The Middle?: Developmental Challenges For Middle-income Countries -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Tables -- List Of Acronyms -- List Of Editors And Contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1: Economic Traps And Progress In Middle-income Countries: An Introduction -- 1.1 Convergence And Divergence In The International System -- 1.2 Two Preliminary Conceptual Precisions -- 1.2.1 Middle-income: Absolute Or Relative? -- 1.2.2 The Nature Of Mits -- 1.3 Empirical Evidence -- 1.3.1 Transit Between Groups -- 1.3.2 Relative Convergence 1.4 In Search Of Explanations -- 1.5 Policy Responses -- 1.6 Structure Of The Book -- 1.7 Acknowledgments -- References -- 2: Growth Strategies To Avoid The Middle-income Trap -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Middle-income Trap: A Brief Review Of Empirical Evidence -- 2.3 Three Facts About Why Middle-income Countries Are Different -- 2.3.1 Convergence -- 2.3.2 Parameter Heterogeneity -- 2.3.3 Transition Dynamics: The Dominance Of Total Factor Productivity -- 2.4 A Short Guide To Successful Middle-income Transitions -- 2.4.1 A Theory Of Middle-income Country Growth 2.4.1.1 Competition Policy And Investment -- 2.4.1.2 Crisis Management And Institutional Change -- 2.4.1.3 Social Mobility, Entrepreneurship, And Innovation -- 2.4.2 The Practitioner's Perspective -- 2.5 Concluding Thoughts -- 2.6 Acknowledgment -- References -- 3: Innovation And The Three Detours For Economic Growth Beyond The Middle-income Stage -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Detour One: From Imitative To Innovation -- 3.3 Detour Two: More, Less, And More Gvc Again -- 3.4 Detour Three: From Short-cycle To Long-cycle Technologies -- 3.5 Summary And Concluding Remarks -- 3.6 Acknowledgments 5: Centripetal Politics And Institution Building In Exiting The Middle-income Trap -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Disarticulation Politics As Obstacles To Institution Building -- 5.3 Taxation: Truncated State Building -- 5.4 Quality Infrastructure I: Cohesion And Fragmentation In Rubber -- 5.5 Quality Infrastructure Ii: Continuing Fragmentation In Autos -- 5.6 Coalitions And Parties In Technical-vocational Education -- 5.7 Conclusions And Implications -- 5.8 Acknowledgments -- References -- 6: Citizens' Rising Expectations: A Call To Rebuild The Social Contract? -- 6.1 Introduction Edited By José Antonio Alonso, José Antonio Ocampo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.