Trade and Development Report 2016

This publication highlights the central role of industrialization, and examines one of the big policy challenges at the centre of the 2030 development agenda: how to establish strong linkages and complementarities across the range of productive sectors needed to establish a virtuous circle of rising and shared prosperity. The Report will address such issues as the &quote;middle income trap&quote;, &quote;premature deindustrialization&quote; and the &quote;natural resource curse&quote; through an examination of trade specialization, investment financing and the effective use of industrial policies.