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Development economics

the scarcity of medium-sized firms in developing countries, with employment split between tiny informal firms and a few large ones.

In development economics, missing middle refers to the scarcity of medium-sized firms in developing countries, with employment split between tiny informal firms and a few large ones. This meaning comes from Tybout (2000) in Journal of Economic Literature.[1]

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development1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct split2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Tybout, J. R. (2000). Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why? Journal of Economic Literature, 38(1), 11-44. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.38.1.11

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