Militants, criminals, and warlords: the challenge of local governance in an age of disorder

摘要

But these quibbles do not in any significant way reduce the value of the book. The mainmessage is that middle income traps are diverse, and we cannot offer a one-size-fits-all answerto it. Pragmatic policy makers and researchers must classify causes, phases and solutions ofthe trap across time and places. The book stresses the difference between traps experiencedduring quantitative growth and traps caused by inability to shift to high domestic value.Certainly, this is not the only way to separate and group traps, but it gives us a good start. Wecan come up with other differentiating principles as long as we keep an eye on both generaltheory and country-specific uniqueness.