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Factors Underlying the Formation of Industrial Clusters in Japan and Industrial Cluster Policy: A Quantitative Survey

Yoshida, Kentaro; Nakanishi, Machiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

processes underlying the formation of industrial clusters in Japan. The study, based on questionnaire surveys, forms part of an … Tsuji's work on IT usage by SMEs in Japan, is meant to form the basis for policy design and implementation. …

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Transformation of a Woodworking and Furniture Industrial District in Kampala, Uganda: Dichotomous Development of SME Cluster and Large Firm Sector

Yoshida, Eiichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

furniture SME district in Uganda has created a learning environment for artisans to start up their own workshops. In the … dispersedly from SME district and have a negative image to SME. This dichotomy has been created partly through spatial division of …

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Environmental provisions in Japanese regional trade agreements with developing countries

Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

the first step in examining the environmental provisions in RTAs, this paper focuses on the RTAs that Japan has concluded … environment in Japanese RTAs has gradually changed since the signing of the Japan-Chile EPA in 2007, in which a joint …

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International labor migration in Vietnam and the impact of receiving countries' policies

Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

Labor export has been part of Vietnamâ€™s socio-economic development strategy since the beginning of the doi moi era. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled foreign workers for high-income East Asian...

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Emergence of Asian GAPs and its relationship to global G.A.P.

Nabeshima, Kaoru; Michida, Etsuyo; Vu, Hoang Nam; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

increasing impacts of Global G.A.P., many Asian countries have introduced the country versions of GAPs; China GAP, Japan GAP …

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Land and labor reallocation in pre-modern Japan : a case of a northeastern village in 1720-1870

Arimoto, Yutaka; Kurosu, Satomi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

. This paper examines how and how well households in pre-modern Japan reallocated land and labor, using a population register …

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Export platform FDI and firm heterogeneity

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically firms' productivity ranking among traditional horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI), pure platform FDI (PFDI), and complex platform FDI (CFDI). Using data on Japanese outward FDI, we define firms conducting HFDI or PFDI as those...

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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications

Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO's firm surveys which investigate Japanese affiliates operating in Southeast Asia. These two approaches found that...

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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …

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Innovation networks in China, Japan, and Korea : evidence from Japanese patent data

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

patent data, we examine how knowledge networks have developed among these countries. We find that Japan's technological …The growing importance of innovation in economic growth has encouraged the development of innovation capabilities in … East Asia, within which China, Japan, and Korea are most important in terms of technological capabilities. Using Japanese …

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