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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rules of Origin and Local Content in East Asia

Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Rules of Origin (RoO) are an integral part of all trade rules. In order to be eligible for Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions relative to local content. The paper tries to calculate...

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Pitfalls of location choice analysis : the finished goods producer versus the intermediate goods producer

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

In literature related to firm location choice, estimation equations are derived from the model of finished goods producers, but producer types are generally not considered. Research presented in this paper shows that the use of equations derived from such models against intermediate goods...

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International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Firms in sub-Saharan Africa

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

As the success of East Asian countries has shown, labor-intensive industry is recognized to lead economic growth in the early stages of development, utilizing relatively low labor costs. This same growth process has already started in South and South East Asian LDCs since the mid-1990s. However,...

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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania

Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time series data for the period between 1970 and 2005. The empirical results show in both sectors there is Granger causality where agriculture causes both exports and manufacturing....

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