‘FDI key to breaking free from middle-income trap’


KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the key factors that helps developing countries like Malaysia break away from the middle-income trap, says Dr Park Dong-hyun.

The principal economist of Asian Development Bank’s Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department was part of a study group that found three common factors which propelled countries like Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan to become high-income nations.

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