Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries

Volume: 16 Number: 2 May 1, 2016
  • Eda Bozkurt
  • Haktan Sevinç
  • Erol Çakmak
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Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries

Abstract

The purpose of the dissertation is to put forward the possibility of middle income trap and the social and economic indicators to help avoid it for a selected group of upper middle income countries by employing convergence and panel data analyses during the period of 1982-2012. Unconditional convergence analysis demonstrated that initial per capita income level of relevant country group increased during the period. Country performances are separately analyzed through unit root analysis and it was shown that 15 of the countries converged to the high income countries while the rest 13 diverged. Panel data analyses resulted that the possibility of middle income trap are high not only for countries which are diverged but also for converged ones, among which Turkey is listed provided that those countries failed to keep up with structural change in their economies. The results of empirical analyses put forward that the risk of middle income trap depends on not only the quantitative increases in per capita income but also the level of structural change in the economy

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Eda Bozkurt This is me

Haktan Sevinç This is me

Erol Çakmak This is me

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May 1, 2016

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May 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Volume: 16 Number: 2

APA
Bozkurt, E., Sevinç, H., & Çakmak, E. (2016). Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries. Ege Academic Review, 16(2), 379-394. https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH
AMA
1.Bozkurt E, Sevinç H, Çakmak E. Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries. ear. 2016;16(2):379-394. https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH
Chicago
Bozkurt, Eda, Haktan Sevinç, and Erol Çakmak. 2016. “Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries”. Ege Academic Review 16 (2): 379-94. https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH.
EndNote
Bozkurt E, Sevinç H, Çakmak E (May 1, 2016) Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries. Ege Academic Review 16 2 379–394.
IEEE
[1]E. Bozkurt, H. Sevinç, and E. Çakmak, “Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries”, ear, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 379–394, May 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH
ISNAD
Bozkurt, Eda - Sevinç, Haktan - Çakmak, Erol. “Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries”. Ege Academic Review 16/2 (May 1, 2016): 379-394. https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH.
JAMA
1.Bozkurt E, Sevinç H, Çakmak E. Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries. ear. 2016;16:379–394.
MLA
Bozkurt, Eda, et al. “Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries”. Ege Academic Review, vol. 16, no. 2, May 2016, pp. 379-94, https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH.
Vancouver
1.Eda Bozkurt, Haktan Sevinç, Erol Çakmak. Middle Income Trap: Panel Data Analysis on Upper Middle Income Countries. ear [Internet]. 2016 May 1;16(2):379-94. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA44TP63RH