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Yangtze River Delta's system integration: institutional barriers and countermeasures
Zhang, Yu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
This paper addresses the issue of institutional barriers to the Yangtze River Delta integration and the resulting slow development. It analyzes the problems including the coordination of local interests and regional interests, market segmentation during the regional integration, competition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764554
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Development strategy in Bihar through revitalizing the agricultural sector : a preliminary analysis
Fujita, Koichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
Based mainly on secondary data and partly on primary information obtained through field surveys in selected rural areas in Bihar in 2011, this paper firstly argues the critical importance of agricultural growth for overall economic development, and then reviews the sluggish growth of agriculture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134401
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Key Factors to Successful Community Development: The Korean Experience
Choe, Chang Soo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005
The Saemaul Undong of the Republic of Korea has been world-widely recognized as a successful model of rural community development. The Saemaul Undong was a pure Korean way of community development program which was initiated by the political will of the top national leadership in order to escape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744778
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Formation of supply chain collaboration and firm performance in the Thai automotive and electronics industries
Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper examines factors that encourage firms to go into supply chain collaborations (SCC) and relationships between SCC and supply chain performances (SCP), using a questionnaire survey on Thai automotive and electronics industries in 2012. OLS regression results show firms established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147332
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Location choice in low-income countries : evidence from Japanese investments in East Asia
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351429
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Is the anti-trafficking framework really for the 'victims'? : reflections on Burmese victims of human trafficking and non-trafficked migrants in Thailand
Yamada, Miwa - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
-trafficking framework on the experiences of Burmese victims and non-trafficked migrants in Thailand. I will question the conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351435
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Changing local elite selection in Thailand : emergence of new local government presidents after direct elections and their capabilities
Funatsu, Tsuruyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Before rural local government units were established in Thailand, reform debates within the country faced a crucial … effect in changing the selection process of the local elite in Thailand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687022
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Supply chain collaboration and responsiveness : a comparison between Thai automotive and electronics industries
Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper examines factors that promote firms to develop supply chain collaborations (SCC) with their partners and relationships between SCC and supply chain operational performances (SCOP), using a questionnaire survey on Thai automotive and electronics industries in 2012. This paper also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691400
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Firm-level impacts of natural disasters on production networks : evidence from a flood in Thailand
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Okubo, Fumihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
In this paper, we explore the firm-level impacts of flooding in Thailand in 2011, specifically those on the procurement … patterns at Japanese affiliates in Thailand. Our findings are as follow. First, the damaged small firms are more likely to … lower their local procurement share, particularly the share of procurement from other Japanese-owned firms in Thailand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743122
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FTA utilization : certificate of origin data versus customs data
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper empirically examines what kinds of elements affect the gap in free trade agreement (FTA) utilization with regard to customs data and certificates of origin (CoOs) data. We focus on Thai exports to Korea under the ASEAN-Korea FTA in 2011. As a result, we found that the products with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743124