{"title":"ECUADOR EN LA TRAMPA DE LA RENTA MEDIA","authors":"Rafael Domínguez, Sara Caria","doi":"10.1016/j.rpd.2016.10.004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The middle income trap (<span>mit</span>) alludes to the challenges that middle income countries face in converging with developed nations, due to their inability to complete the productive transition from low value-added sectors (commodities and natural resource- and labor-intensive manufactured goods) to high value-added sectors (technology-intensive manufactured goods). The objective of this paper is to evaluate the causes behind the <span>mit</span> in which Ecuador has been entrenched for the past 60 years and the country's prospects for emerging from this trap, analyzing official development strategies and the conditions that the emerging literature about the <span>mit</span> (which connects with the theory of the developmentalist State and its problematic exportation to the Latin America region) has found are needed for countries that export just a few commodities to make strides forward in development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35889,"journal":{"name":"Problemas del Desarrollo","volume":"47 187","pages":"Pages 89-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rpd.2016.10.004","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Problemas del Desarrollo","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301703616300396","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The middle income trap (mit) alludes to the challenges that middle income countries face in converging with developed nations, due to their inability to complete the productive transition from low value-added sectors (commodities and natural resource- and labor-intensive manufactured goods) to high value-added sectors (technology-intensive manufactured goods). The objective of this paper is to evaluate the causes behind the mit in which Ecuador has been entrenched for the past 60 years and the country's prospects for emerging from this trap, analyzing official development strategies and the conditions that the emerging literature about the mit (which connects with the theory of the developmentalist State and its problematic exportation to the Latin America region) has found are needed for countries that export just a few commodities to make strides forward in development.
期刊介绍:
roblemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía, publicación trimestral, es el órgano oficial de divulgación del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), el que atento a la propuesta de sus fundadores, recibe todas las interpretaciones teóricas que con rigor científico, pretendan analizar las diferentes dificultades planteadas por el desarrollo económico, a fin de generar crítica, refutación y reconocer desacuerdos entre predicciones como cualquier teoría científica es capaz de hacerlo.