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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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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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 Society (in Japanese)
By Shin ARITA (Associate Professor Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The University of Tokyo)