Science and Technology Policies and the Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from Vietnam.
As Vietnam crossed the World Bank's threshold from 'low income' to 'lower middle-income' in 2010 the government and aid donors started to speak about 'the middle-income trap' as a central problem; and to frame 'science and technology (S&T) policy' as a means of sustaining economic growth and thereby...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 717 - 732 |
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