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The Political Economy of Growth: A Review

Hazama, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This cursory literature review discusses the direct and indirect effects of institutions, governance, and democracy on …. Even reforms that are less than comprehensive can stimulate, though not sustain, growth. Second, democracy neither promotes … but not democracy does not. The difference may be partly due to negative effects on investment and labor supply as well as …

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Diversified boundaries of the firm

Kimura, Koichiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

We analyze diversification of boundaries of local firms in developing countries under the economic globalization. The … globalization has an aspect of homogenization of the world economy, but also has another aspect of diversification through … international economic activities. Focusing on boundary-level of the firm, this article shows that the diversification from a …

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Rice flows across regions in Madagascar

Ralandison, Tsilavo; Arimoto, Yutaka; Kono, Hisaki; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Although spatial disintegration of rice markets in Madagascar has been well documented, little is known about actual rice flows across regions. Using weekly collected unique data from rice markets in 22 regional capital cities for one year, this study explores the physical distribution of rice...

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Understanding traders' regional arbitage : the case of rice traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Arimoto, Yutaka; Kono, Hisaki; Ralandison, Tsilavo; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Many studies find that agricultural markets in developing countries are poorly integrated spatially. Traders' regional arbitrage plays a key role in integrating markets across space. We investigate the performance of regional arbitrage and the associated obstacles for rice traders in...

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Impacts of solar lanterns in geographically challenged locations : experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Kudo, Yuya; Shonchoy, Abu S.; Takahashi, Kazushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Despite continuous efforts to improve the coverage, the access to electricity remains insufficient in many developing countries, particularly in geographically challenged locations, due mostly to the high cost of grid extension. To rigorously investigate the effectiveness of solar products as an...

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Development of land rental market and its effect on household farming in rural China : an empirical study in Zhejiang Province

Hoken, Hisatoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of land rental market development on the efficiency of labor allocation and land utilization in rural China. To test the hypothesis that the shadow wage of a rent-in household with limited off-farm opportunities will increase with the development of a land...

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Trade, economic growth and environment

Managi, Shunsuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

The literature on trade openness, economic development, and the environment is largely inconclusive about the environmental consequences of trade. This study review previous studies focusing on treating trade and income as endogenous and estimating the overall impact of trade openness on...

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Does Quality Matter in the Iron and Scrap Trade?

Michida, Etsuyo; Atici, Cemal; Kojima, Michikazu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper sheds light on the iron and steel (IS) scrap trade to examine how economic development affects the quality demanded of recyclable resource. A simple model is presented that show a mechanism of how scrap quality impacts the direction of trade due to comparative advantage. We find that...

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The rise and fall in the price of food, fuel and manufactured goods : interdependency between prices and technology determining comparative advantages and development paths

Yamagata, Tatsufumi; Asuyama, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Green innovation, which enables us to extract energy from food crops, caused a food shortage in 2008. Countries suffering severe damage started to reconsider their agricultural policy with the aim of becoming more autonomous. The food price hike of the time looks like a reversal of the...

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Ramadan school holidays as a natural experiment : impacts of seasonality on school dropout in Bangladesh

Shonchoy, Abu S.; Ito, Seiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In 2000, Ramadan school vacation coincided with the original annual exam period of December in Bangladesh. This forced schools to pre-pone their final exam schedules in November, which was the month before the harvest begins. 'Ramadan 2000' is a natural experiment that reduced the labor demand...

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