The Middle-Income Trap

Steering Chile away from the middle-income trap

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/09/29/steering-chile-away-from-the-middle-income-trap
Related:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-24/latin-america-s-star-pupil-needs-some-new-ideas

Tackling Non-Inclusive Growth

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tackling-non-inclusive-growth-by-michael-spence-2017-09

Avoiding the Dreaded Middle-Income Trap

https://www.oecd.org/dev/50305488.pdf

The Politics of Latin America’s Middle-Income Trap

https://www.cfr.org/blog/politics-latin-americas-middle-income-trap

Latin America's Middle-Income Trap

http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2142

FT Special Report – Business Schools in Asia

Financial Times special report: Asian Business Schools

https://www.ft.com/reports/asian-business-schools

China business schools are evolving rapidly

https://www.ft.com/content/0ad44c16-bdbc-11e8-8dfd-2f1cbc7ee27c

Singapore keeps status as leader in Asian business education

https://www.ft.com/content/363a1be8-ac4a-11e8-8253-48106866cd8a

Natural Resource Curse – Cobalt Mining in Congo [Updated]

Fortune’s special report on Cobalt Mining in Congo

http://fortune.com/longform/blood-sweat-and-batteries/

Related:
Congo and Cobalt – Natural Resource Curse

www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-16/glencore-s-misadventure-in-the-congo-threatens-its-cobalt-dreams

Update:
Fascinating: Congo: A River Journey
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/congo

Economists in the Tech Industry

Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

https://people.stanford.edu/athey/sites/default/files/economists_in_tech.pdf

Trade Deals – Mostly Cosmetic Changes

David Fickling notes:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-01/globalists-will-love-trump-s-new-nafta-deal

“The main new element – the abolition of a variety of milk Canada introduced last year to support its domestic dairy industry – is ultimately an anti-protectionist move. The main old element is some fiddling around Nafta’s rules on automotive trade which, as we’ve argued previously, aren’t likely to change much.

That suggests an emerging playbook for the Trump administration’s trade agreements. As with the revised U.S.-South Korea deal announced last week, the achievement is declared to be historic while the changes made are cosmetic. That dynamic bodes rather well for the U.S.-Japan bilateral talks announced last week, not to mention the simmering trade war with China.”

A Japan-U.S. pact looks like the opposite of free trade

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/09/27/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-u-s-pact-looks-like-opposite-free-trade/

Tariffs – Historical Lessons

https://voxeu.org/article/three-tariff-lessons-us-interwar-history

Gender Imbalances and China's Marriage Market

Gender imbalances and China's marriage market
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-29/why-marriage-costs-in-china-are-out-of-control

Thought-Provoking Reads

Why America Has a Two-Track Economy

www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-27/why-america-has-a-two-track-economy

Should public companies do more than maximize profits?
http://review.chicagobooth.edu/finance/2018/article/should-public-companies-do-more-maximize-profits 

Profit Sharing Now

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/profit-sharing-labour-party-plan-by-kaushik-basu-2018-09

The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade

www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/upshot/mini-recession-2016-little-known-big-impact.html