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No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 by MichaelO'Sullivan, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2023, xiv + 386 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Amanda Lanzillo
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The Substitution Effect of Preferential Tariffs on Nontariff Measures: Evidence from Vietnam The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Chuc Dinh Nguyen, Kazunobu Hayakawa
This study empirically investigates the effects of ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) tariffs on nontariff measures (NTMs) in Vietnam from 2012 to 2018. Our findings reveal the following: First, our gravity estimation demonstrates that although the reduction of ATIGA tariffs increases Vietnam's imports, the introduction of certain NTM types, particularly price control and finance measures, decreases
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Impacts of Tariff Rates on Input Source Choice: Evidence from Indonesia The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Siwage Dharma Negara, Dionisius A. Narjoko, Kazunobu Hayakawa
This study empirically examines how a reduction in input tariffs changes firms' choices between domestic and foreign inputs. In order to do so, we employ Indonesian manufacturing surveys from 2002 to 2010 and compute the share of imported inputs among total inputs at the firm-product level. With this dataset, we examine the effect of preferential tariffs for ASEAN countries—that is, ASEAN Free Trade
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Impacts of Trade Liberalization in the Least Developed Countries: Evidence From Lao PDR The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Phouphet Kyophilavong, Kazunobu Hayakawa
This study empirically investigates the effects of tariff reductions in a least developed country on its economy. Specifically, we focus on tariff reductions based on the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in Laos. First, we analyze how the reduction of AFTA tariff rates in Laos affects Laos's imports from AFTA member countries. Our main finding is that the reduction of AFTA tariffs in Laos does not significantly
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Heterogenous impacts of trade liberalization on individual wages: Evidence from Thailand The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Sasatra Sudsawasd, Kazunobu Hayakawa
This study empirically examines how trade liberalization changes individuals' wages, with evidence from Thailand. We primarily focus on the effect of Thailand's tariff reduction under the ASEAN free trade regime. We use individual-level employment data for 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016. We find that the reduction in AFTA tariffs in Thailand decreases the relative wages of the more educated and skilled
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Resilience in the time of COVID-19: Lessons learned from Middle East and North Africa small- and medium-sized enterprises The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Zouheir El-Sahli, Mouyad Alsamara
We investigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Using firm-level panel data from an enterprise survey, we highlight several new findings. The surveyed firms resorted to wage and work hour reductions more readily than layoffs in the wake of the pandemic. Within these firms, larger firms are more resilient, recover faster
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The European Union's safeguard for rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Kiyoyasu Tanaka
Following a substantial increase in Indica rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar, the European Union (EU) adopted safeguard measures to reinstate the common-customs tariff rate of 175 euros per ton from 2019, with progressive liberalization over three years. To estimate the impact of safeguard duties, this paper uses a sample of milled rice imports from 28 EU importers during 2017–20 and adopts a
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Spatial Income Inequality, Convergence, and Regional Development in a Lower Middle-Income Country: Satellite Evidence from the Philippines The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Jesson A. Pagaduan
This paper examines spatial income inequality and convergence in the Philippines—a lower middle-income country with historically high inequality—and its course over the process of economic development. Combining higher quality nighttime lights (NTLs) with gridded population data, I construct subnational measures of spatial inequality for the 17 administrative regions in the country in the period 2000–2020
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Performance of community-based tank irrigation system and its determinants: Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Sarujan Sathiyamoorthy, Kei Kajisa, Takeshi Sakurai
Irrigation tanks are classic examples of common pool resources that have been traditionally managed by local communities. However, the tank performance under community management in Tamil Nadu has declined over the last few decades and threatened the local livelihoods. This study investigates the effect of community management on irrigation tank performance using village-level two-period data collected
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Public expenditures and life satisfaction: Evidence from Turkey The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Ümİt Acar, Abdullah Tİrgİl
Gross domestic product has been the primary development indicator for nearly a century and has played an important role in designing and evaluating public policies and comparing countries' development levels. On the other hand, the last two decades have seen a growing trend toward alternative well-being indicators. One of these alternative indicators is life satisfaction. We study the relationship
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Impacts of Vaccination on International Trade During the Pandemic Era The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Kazunobu Hayakawa
This paper examines how COVID-19 vaccinations change international trade. We analyze monthly level trade data from January 2020 to March 2022 that cover the bilateral exports from 40 reporting countries to 220 partner countries. Our findings can be summarized as follows. On average, the effects of vaccination rates in importing and exporting countries on exports were found to be insignificant. When
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Why Did They Not Borrow? Debt-Averse Farmers In Rural Vietnam The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Khoa A. Trinh, Nathan Berg, Arlene Garces-Ozanne, Stephen Knowles
Nonborrowers are defined as debt averse if they have never borrowed in the past and prefer avoiding debt in the future, even when offered generous borrowing terms such as zero interest rates, zero collateral, and easy debt-forgiveness. Other nonborrower types have either borrowed in the past or are open to doing so in the future. To better understand nonborrowing behavior, credit preference types (CPTs)
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Does Dowry Drive Labor Export? Evidence from Pakistan The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Ahmed Raza Cheema, Ian Coxhead
In Pakistan, one household in six receives remittances from family members working elsewhere. Using household data from a national living standards survey, we find that propensity to receive remittances is strongly associated with a higher number of dependent girls relative to total children in a household. The effect is significant for younger households and for households with lower permanent income
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The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change by MinaRoces, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2021, ix + 254 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Leonora C. Angeles
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Unwritten Rule: State‐Making through Land Reform in Cambodia by AliceBeban, Ithaka, NY, Cornell University Press, 2021, xiv + 242 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Robin Biddulph
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Do partial land rights increase productivity and investment? evidence from the redistributive land reform in post–world war II Japan The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Taisuke Takayama, Hirotaka Matsuda, Tomoaki Nakatani, Kuniaki Saito
There are inconclusive findings on the causal effect of land reform and its crucial channels in the development economics literature. One challenge is to separate the channels, through which land rights operate. This study examines the impact of redistributive land reform in post–World War II Japan on agricultural productivity and investments. This reform imposed a ceiling on landholdings, redistributed
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The Economic Consequences of Globalization on Thailand by JuthathipJongwanich, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2022, xii + 288 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Donghyun Park
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Mobility as Capability: Women in the Indian Informal Economy by NikhilaMenon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, xv + 196 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Arup Mitra
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Whose Islam? The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia by Megan BrankleyAbbas,Stanford, CA,Stanford University Press, 2021, xvii + 255 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Philip Fountain
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A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia–Pacific by T. J.Pempel, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2021, xii + 252 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Stephan Haggard
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Building Research Universities in India by PankajJalote, New Delhi, SAGE, 2021, xxiii + 415 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Jandhyala B G Tilak
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Urban Headway and Upward Mobility in India by ArupMitra, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, vii + 192 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Mahalaya Chatterjee
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Contours of Value Capture: India's Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development by SatyakiRoy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xiv + 202 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Arindam Banerjee
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Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia by Kristen E. Looney, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2020, xv + 213 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-20 John A. Donaldson
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Introduction to the Special Issue on "How Does COVID-19 Change the World Economy?" The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Kazunobu Hayakawa,Hiroshi Kuwamori
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Estimating Firm-Level Capital Stock: The Evidence From Turkey The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-05-02 Ensar Yilmaz, İbrahim Engin Kiliç
In this study, we mainly discuss the validity of estimating the capital stock at the firm level. Unlike the macro-level estimates, the micro-level estimates require a different treatment on the capital accumulation equation, especially on the estimate of the initial level of capital stock, controlling for firms' entry and exit, and changing composition of firm-level investments. We also consider the
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The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy by Bryn Rosenfeld, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, x + 276 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-25 Stephan Haggard
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The Prosperity Paradox: Fewer and More Vulnerable Farm Workers by PhilipMartin, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, xix + 213 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Manolo Abella
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on South Korea's Stock Market and Exchange Rate The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Takeshi Hoshikawa, Taiyo Yoshimi
This study examines COVID-19 pandemic effects on the stock market and exchange rate of South Korea. With daily data from January 2, 2019 to August 31, 2020, we show that a new infection spike increases stock price index volatility and decreases foreign investors' holdings of domestic stocks, and indirectly leads to the depreciation of the South Korean won. We indicate that investors may have repurchased
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In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast by SanjibBaruah, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, xii + 278 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Norio Kondo
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Value Chains The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Kazunobu Hayakawa, Hiroshi Mukunoki
We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on global value chains by examining bilateral trade in finished machinery products from January to June in both 2019 and 2020. We use the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths as measures of the impact of the pandemic. Specifically, we investigate how these impacts affect value chains in three scenarios—countries that import finished machinery products, countries
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The Growth of Islamic Banking in Indonesia: Theory and Practice by YasushiSuzuki and SigitPramono, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2020, xv + 128 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-02-28 Rifki Ismal
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Do Lockdown Policies Reduce Economic and Social Activities? Evidence from NO2 Emissions The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Souknilanh Keola, Kazunobu Hayakawa
This study empirically investigates how much economic and social activities were decreased by the implementation of lockdown policies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We measure the magnitude of those activities using nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions. Our observations include daily NO2 emissions in 173 countries from January 1 to July 31, 2020. Our findings can be summarized
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Grants for Whom and Why? The Politics of Allocation of Transfers in Brazil The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-12 Jorge L D. Ferreira, Alexandre F. Alves, Emilie Caldeira
This study discusses political and electoral reasons for the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We tested the influence of political alignment with the federal government and deputies, and the effects of elections and changes in alliance status upon Brazilian discretionary transfers. We performed a panel data analysis encompassing 2,856 municipalities from 1999 to 2011. The
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Distributive Politics in Malaysia: Maintaining Authoritarian Party Dominance by Hidekuni Washida, London, Routledge, 2019, xiii + 229 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Thomas B. Pepinsky
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ROSCAS as Insurance: Comparing Formal and Informal Methods of Saving among the Unskilled Workers in the Ethiopian Cut-Flower Industry The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Eun Jin Ryu, Aya Suzuki
We explore the factors associated with the savings choice among bank accounts, informal savings groups, and cash savings at home using primary data collected from low-income production workers in cut-flower farms in Ethiopia. A unique contextual feature of our sample is that workers have full access to banks as well as ROSCAs, which allow us to focus on the demand side of saving methods. We find that
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Growth Spillovers for the MENA Region: Geography, Institutions, or Trade? The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Merve Aksoylar Baysoy, Sumru Altug
We examine the role of spatial spillovers in economic growth for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We explicitly model spatial interactions that may arise from geography, bilateral trade, or institutional similarities, and ask how much they are likely to matter for growth externalities and spillover effects. We find that the economic growth of a MENA country is positively affected by
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Pathways to Prosperity in Vietnam: Structural and Transitional Inequality in the Distribution of Opportunity The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Emi Kojin, Ian Coxhead
I BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Vietnam has experienced a dramatic transition to a market‐based economy, high economic growth, and globalization since the mid‐1980s. As a result, many new types of economic opportunities have emerged, especially since 2000. During this period, social inequality in Vietnam appears to be greater than the published statistics indicate. Although the Gini
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Top Corporate Leaders in Vietnam's Transitional Economy: Origins and Career Pathways The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Mai Fujita
Literature on the corporate elite in transitional economies has focused on the elite's political backgrounds. However, the evolution of the corporate sector amidst decades of transition in these economies suggests that research needs to go beyond origins to focus on career pathways. Adopting a career history analysis, this study constitutes the first systematic attempt to empirically analyze career
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Diversifying Factors of Income Inequality in the Rural Mekong Delta: Evidence of Commune‐Level Heterogeneity The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-11-29 Emi Kojin
This paper examines factors affecting income inequality in rural Vietnam with a special focus on the Mekong Delta. A case study reveals that there is heterogeneity in the factors of rural inequality at the commune level. While the inequality in one survey commune correlates with nonagricultural income rather than landholdings, the inequality in the other survey commune is determined by landholdings
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Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt by Amr Adly, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, xvi +315 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Housam Darwisheh
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Rent Sharing, Investment, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Employee‐Level Data in Vietnam The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Thang Ngoc Bach, Canh Quang Le, Thang Van Nguyen
Previous studies on collective bargaining have largely been conducted in developed countries where trade unions are relatively independent from employers and government and have the necessary capacity for bargaining. In the absence of market institutions that support trade unions' independence and capacity to bargain, the role of trade unions could be different. Using employee‐level data with firm's
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Persistent Privilege? Institutional Education Gaps during Vietnam's Economic Boom The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Diep Phan, Ian Coxhead
A persistent public–private sector difference in returns to skills is one sign that Vietnam's transition from command to market economy remains incomplete. Matching this is a large gap in post‐compulsory education enrollments, favoring children from families with members employed by government or state enterprises. We compare that gap between 2004 and 2014, a decade during which Vietnam experienced
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The Roots of Revolt: A Political Economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak by Angela Joya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xx + 271 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-09-27 Housam Darwisheh
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The Effect of Exporting on Creative Destruction and a Plant's Average Product Characteristics in Japan and Korea The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Chin Hee Hahn, Keiko Ito
This paper examines whether exporting activity contributes to the promotion of creative destruction and the upgrading of a plant's product portfolio. We first present evidence that exporters tend to produce, on average, products with higher attributes than non‐exporters. Next, we find evidence that exporting improves a plant's average product attributes, utilizing the propensity score difference‐in‐difference
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Transportation Costs in Archipelagos: Evidence from Indonesia The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Kazunobu Hayakawa, Ikumo Isono, Satoru Kumagai
This paper empirically examines the effects of domestic transportation costs on product prices in an archipelagic country, namely, Indonesia. Specifically, we investigate the province‐level price of televisions. Our analysis reveals that maritime transportation is more expensive than land transportation. For example, a 1% increase in distance in maritime and land transportation increases the price
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Myanmar's Foreign Exchange Market: Controls, Reforms, and Informal Market by Koji Kubo, Singapore, Springer, 2018, xviii + 126 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Fumiharu Mieno
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Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations edited by Deepak Nayyar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xxiv + 577 pp.Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development by DeepakNayyar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xx + 295 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Machiko Nissanke
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Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank, Manila, ADB, 2020, xxix + 583 pp. The Developing Economies (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2020-08-09 C. Peter Timmer
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