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Stunted and Distorted Industrialization in Myanmar

Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

More than 15 years have passed since Myanmar embarked on its transition from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented one. The purpose of this paper is to provide a bird-eye's view of industrial changes from the 1990s up to 2005. The industrial sector showed a preliminary development in...

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Did Japanese direct investment in Korea suppress indigenous industrialization in the 1930s? : evidence from country-level factory entry patterns

Arimoto, Yutaka; Lee, Changmin - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

, even at a very early stage of industrialization. …

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Agglomeration and firm-level productivity : a Bayesian spatial approach

Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper estimates the impact of industrial agglomeration on firm-level productivity in Chinese manufacturing sectors. To account for spatial autocorrelation across regions, we formulate a hierarchical spatial model at the firm level and develop a Bayesian estimation algorithm. A Bayesian...

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Growth strategies in a greener world

Nabeshima, Kaoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

industrial opportunities as well as difficulties for developing countries embarking on industrialization. In this paper, we … examine current developments in global market that would affect industrialization prospects in East Asia and explores …

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Winner-Take-All Contention of Innovation under Globalization: A Simulation Analysis and East Asia's Empirics

Ishido, Hikari; Okamoto, Yusuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

This paper sets out to examine how innovation enhances export competitiveness: The proposition that export volume becomes enhanced as more productivity-enhancing innovation is captured by the exporting economy is the focus of this study. From a Schumpeterian perspective, innovation can be...

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Slow and steady wins the race : how the garment industry leads industrialization in low-income countries

Fukunishi, Takahiro; Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

-intensive industry as a starting point for full-fledged industrialization, even though it might at first seem to be a digression from the … initiation of industrialization causes wages to begin to rise, there is still a possibility for productivity enhancement; and (3 …

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Industrialization in Indonesia since the 1970s

Ishida, Masami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2003

within the same Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In fact, the 1993 report by the World Bank, entitled "East … economic performance, i.e. sustained economic growth (World Bank [1993]). And it was the manufacturing industry that had been … becomes important to think back on the history of the country's industrialization. Thus, this paper is intended to retrace and …

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The Japanese and Chinese models of industrial organisation : fighting for supremacy in the Vietnamese motorcycle industry

Fujita, Mai - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper explores the consequences of the emerging rivalry between Japanese and Chinese manufacturers. It focuses specifically on industrial organisation, one of the key factors that underlie the competitiveness of manufacturing industries. The question to be asked is what happens when...

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Theoretical Models Based on a Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy

Kuchiki, Akifumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

This article examined the issue of whether or not the currency exchange rate, country risk, and cooperate tax rate affect decisions of multinational firms to invest in industrial clusters. First, if the exchange rate between a multinational company in an industry of diminishing returns to scale...

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The "Catching up" Process of Manufacturing in East Asia

Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

This paper examines the "catching up" process of manufacturing in East Asia within the framework of North and South location. Results of this study indicate that latecomers of the ASEAN Four and China have advanced the "catching up" process. At the same time, second-runners of the Asian NIES...

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