Growth slowdowns and middle-income trap: Evidence from new unit root framework

This paper suggests a new testing procedure to systematically examine the middle-income trap (MIT). To empirically demonstrate this procedure, one high income and 14 middle-income countries are examined using newly developed unit root tests - Fourier ADF with structural break (FADF-SB) and Seemingly...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Furuoka, Fumitaka, Pui, Kiew Ling, Ezeoke, Chinyere Mary, Jacob, Ray I., Yaya, Olaoluwa S.
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منشور في: World Scientific 2024
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://eprints.um.edu.my/45502/
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590820500083
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الملخص:This paper suggests a new testing procedure to systematically examine the middle-income trap (MIT). To empirically demonstrate this procedure, one high income and 14 middle-income countries are examined using newly developed unit root tests - Fourier ADF with structural break (FADF-SB) and Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Fourier ADF (SUR-FADF). The FADF-SB test incorporates unknown nonlinearity and smooth break in the time-series, while the SUR-FADF test accounts for cross-sectional dependency. The empirical findings produced mixed results: 10 countries have a relatively high possibility of facing the MIT problem, while only one country has a relatively low possibility of facing the problem. For the remaining three countries, it is uncertain whether they will face the problem of MIT. These empirical findings have significant policy implications.