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Development Issues and Challenges for Middle-Income Countries

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3:00 pm March 2018

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5:00 pm March 2018

Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances, direction des Etudes et des Prévisions Financières, Rabat.

Along with other 108 countries in the world, Morocco is currently classified by the World Bank as a middle-income country (MIC), an income category that accounts for five of the world’s seven billion people and 73 percent of the world’s poor people.   This presentation will review the reasons why historically it is so difficult to graduate from this income category—over the last half century, only two countries were able to go through the low and middle-income categories to join the high income group. The discussion will focus on issues facing the MICs today and some concrete policy measures taken by the successful countries.  Emphasis will be on practical recommendations for policy makers.

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Speakers
Hinh T. Dinh
Senior Fellow
Hinh T. Dinh is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South; President and CEO of Economic Growth and Transformation, LLC., Great Falls, VA, USA; and Senior Research Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Previously he spent over 35 years working at the World Bank Group.  He joined the Bank through its Young Professionals Program and held a variety of assignments in all three complexes: Operations, Finance, and Research.  His last position was Lead Economist in the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.  He has authored and coauthored books published by the World Bank, Oxford University, and Policy Center for the New South, and articles in professional journals covering public finance, industrialization, and economic ...