SINGAPORE: Growth-hungry Asian economies which bypass industrialization and leapfrog from agriculture to the services sector may fall into a “middle income trap,” the Asian Development Bank (ADB) cautioned on Wednesday.
ADB chief economist Changyong Rhee said that the region’s low-income economies should focus on developing their manufacturing sectors, which would in turn generate high-quality service jobs and improve agricultural productivity.
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