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The middle income trap has recently become an issue. It is a theory that economists have been discussing especially in connection with slowly developing countries or countries with middle income. The middle income trap can be defined as an economic phenomenon when a country is not capable to make use of comparative advantages in form of labour demanding production and its economic growth stagnates. This economy thus remains in the doorway between poor countries with cheap labour and developed economies with high income. In its Transition Report 2017–2018, from 23 November 2017, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) warned about the danger of the countries of Eastern and Middle Europe falling into the middle income trap. The middle income trap is a relatively frequent topic, for example the website patria.cz, in connection to the countries that managed to get among countries with middle income but have problems with further economic growth.