Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: A subnational perspective

• In Event: Income Mobility, Economic Geography, and Growth

Brief Overview

Though scholars often portray Mexico as caught in the “middle-income trap,” that description obscures significant subnational variation. We illustrate this variation by examining the case of Queretaro, a high performer in the post-NAFTA period.

Author

• Alberto Fuentes, Georgia Institute of Technology