SRID Journal vol.28 Contents

About SRID Journal

About SRID Journal

SRID Journal serves as a platform to share innovative, intellectually stimulating, and thought-provoking ideas about the nature and advancement of international development with a global audience in a blog-like format. Rather than aiming to be a collection of academic papers, its primary purpose is to provide a space for …

Opening Essay

TAKAHASHI: Global Subsidiarity: An Integrated Approach to Overcoming the Middle-Income Trap: A New Attempt in the Age Characterized by Division and National Egocentrism in the World

While theoretically there are three possible approaches to overcoming traps of middle-income countries (economic, economic and social welfare, and integration of economic, social and political dimensions), we do not have any other real option …

Editorial/Insight (featuring “The Middle-Income Trap”)

TAMAKI: The Middle-Income Trap: Lessons from the World Bank Report

The World Bank’s World Development Report 2024 (WDR2024) provides a clear and comprehensive analysis of countries’ economic development pathways, with aparticular emphasis on strategies for escaping from the “middle-income trap.” …

TAIRA & UEMATSU: The Middle-Income Trap: The Other Side of “The Trap” -The Melancholy and A New Hope of Development Cooperation Donors

As highlighted in the World Development Report 2024 published by the World Bank, middle-income countries often face the “trap” of stagnant growth after transitioning from low to middle income levels. Aid donors also encounter certain …

OTANI: Medium-to-Long-Term Economic Prospect of PRC: Anguish of Giant Middle-Income Country

After the adoption of the “Reform and Opening-up” policy led by Deng Xiaoping in late 1978, the People's Republic of China (PRC) built a more open economic system and experienced a more rapid economic growth. However, since peaking at …

YAMAOKA: Re-examining the Middle-income Trap from the Perspective of Human Social Development

The World Bank’s World Development Report 2024, released in the summer of 2024, explores strategies to overcome the “middle-income trap.” While the conventional arguments, including those presented in this report, emphasize the …