All the Way to the Top: Industrial Policy, Innovation, and Sustained Growth
By Reda Cherif and Fuad Hasanov
The odds of poor or middle-income countries achieving the stardom of the “Asian Miracles” within a generation or two, or even three, are small. Between 1960 and 2014, only 16 developing economies worldwide were able to vault into high-income status, and many of those were fortunate enough to have discovered oil or join the European Union. […]