Whether or not Growth Miracles are a "thing of the past," we're wholly under-equipped to understand them. With a few exceptions (@rodrikdani et al), they've been abandoned as serious objects of academic inquiry. Even as they were never abandoned in the minds of policy makers.https://twitter.com/gabrielmpalazzo/status/967038366322712578 …
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Maybe because the key risk factor for a growth miracle is low GDP relative to IQ. And no one wants to explain that too loudly.
If North Korean dictatorship somehow converts into something less insane, I except a lot of growth to happen there.
