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Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation

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  • Richard Doner
  • Ben Ross Schneider

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This article analyses variations in the provision (breadth and depth) of skill formation through technical and vocational education (TVE) in secondary education in middle-income countries. A growing consensus blames productivity stagnation for the middle-income trap and advocates more human capital to boost productivity. Building on the extensive political economy literature of skill formation in developed economies, the article emphasises the importance of a more demand-side analysis of skill formation. Fragmentation of social groups in middle-income countries discourages the sorts of coalitions that pushed strong public investment in TVE in earlier developers. Brief analyses of exceptional TVE expansion in Chile, Turkey, and Malaysia suggest the importance of a more top-down dynamic led by strong parties and stable governments that compensated for weaker coalitions.

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  • Richard Doner & Ben Ross Schneider, 2020. "Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(4), pages 680-697, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:56:y:2020:i:4:p:680-697
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1595597
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    1. Naseemullah, Adnan, 2023. "The political economy of national development: A research agenda after neoliberal reform?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    2. Xiaoshan Hu & Guanghua Wan & Chen Yang & Anqi Zhang, 2023. "Inequality and the middle‐income trap," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(7), pages 1684-1710, October.
    3. Juan Bogliaccini & Aldo Madariaga & Miski Peralta, 2023. "Skills formation and (un)employment in Latin America: Evidence from Chile," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 41(3), May.
    4. Sinha, Avik & Balsalobre-Lorente, Daniel & Zafar, Wasif & Saleem, Muhammad Mansoor, 2021. "Analyzing Global Inequality in Access to Energy: Developing Policy Framework by Inequality Decomposition," MPRA Paper 111061, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2021.

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