Award for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries

In order to promote studies on developing countries, and to encourage researchers in Japan who are engaged in such studies, each year IDE-JETRO grants awards for outstanding publications on economic and other issues concerning developing countries.

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External Relations Division, Research Promotion Department, IDE-JETRO
TEL: +81-43-299-9536
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Award-Winning Publication for FY2016

Center-Local Relationship in Lao PDR: Local Administration of Provincial Governor under the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
(in Japanese)
By SETO Hiroyuki
(Designated Associate Professor (Graduate School of Law), Ph.D., Nagoya University Asian Satellite Campuses Institute)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2015

The Emergence and Demise of Military Governance in China: From Cultural Revolution to Deng Xiaoping
(in Japanese)
By Jaehwan Lim
(Associate Professor, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University)

Reflective Ethnic Movement: A Comparative and Constructivist Analysis of Bolivian and Ecuadorian Indigenous Organizations
(in Japanese)
Takahiro Miyachi
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2014

Anti-Civic Politics: Morality and Inequality in the Philippine Democracy (in Japanese)
By Wataru Kusaka
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University)

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Garokoyre: An Ethnographic Study of Moral and Revolt around Rural Society of Western Niger (in Japanese)
By Yutaka Sakuma
(Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2013

The Rule and Power of the Chinese Communist Party in the 21st Century

The Rule and Power of the Chinese Communist Party in the 21st Century:
The Party and Newly Emerging Socio-economic Elites
(in Japanese)
By Takashi Suzuki
(Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Foreign Studies, Aichi Prefectural University)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2012

The Nation and Culture of Taiwan: From De-Japanization, Sinicization to Indigenization

The Nation and Culture of Taiwan: From De-Japanization, Sinicization to Indigenization (in Japanese)
By Atsushi SUGANO
(Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of International Studies, Meio University)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2011

“Caste and Equality: Historical Anthropology of Local Society and Vernacular Democracy in India</a>”(in Japanese)

Caste and Equality: Historical Anthropology of Local Society and Vernacular Democracy in India (in Japanese)
By Akio TANABE
(Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary India, Kyoto University)

Comparative Economic Analysis: Transition to a Market Economy and the Role of the State (in Japanese)
By Ichiro IWASAKI
(Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
By Taku SUZUKI
(Deputy Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Teikyo University)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2010

Health Care Reform in Thailand (in Japanese)
By Masato KAWAMORI
(Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2009

Anthropology of Possession and Distribution: Dynamics of Land and Wealth in Rural Ethiopia

Anthropology of Possession and Distribution: Dynamics of Land and Wealth in Rural Ethiopia (in Japanese)
By Keiichiro MATSUMURA
(Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2008

The Ageing Asia

The Ageing Asia (in Japanese)
By Keiichiro OIZUMI
(Senior Economist, Center for Pacific Business Studies, Economics Department,The Japan Research Institute, Limited)

Award-Winning Publication for FY2007

The Birth of the One-Party Dictatorial System in Taiwan (in Japanese)
By Yasuhiro MATSUDA (Senior Research Fellow The National Institute for Defense Studies)


Education and Social Stratification in South Korea: An Empirical Approach to the 'School Credential

Education and Social Stratification in South Korea: An Empirical Approach to the 'School Credential Society (in Japanese)
By Shin ARITA (Associate Professor Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The University of Tokyo)