What is the 'middle income trap'? Could China fall into the middle income trap, despite its previous blockbuster economic growth? Dr. Nicholas R. Lardy, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and author of The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China? (2019), offers his perspective on China's economic prospects.
This interview from the FPA archives was recorded in 2018.
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