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Latest Reports
- Ian Coxhead, Anna Strutt, Erwin Corong, Varan Kitayaporn"The ‘China Shock’ and middle-income economies: threats to industrialization and human capital formation"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Banh Thi Hang, Ian Coxhead, Nguyen Dinh Tuan Vuong"Local labor market effects of FDI: job growth and skills demand in Vietnam"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Satoshi Inomata, Toru Hisamitsu, Fumihiko Imamura, Yuichi Kichikawa, Yoshiyuki Sagara"Where is the chokepoint? Mapping supply chain vulnerabilities using firm-to-firm transaction data"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Ian COXHEAD and Varan KITAYAPORN"China’s Export Boom Is Squeezing Middle-income Asia"March 2026(IDE ResearchColumns No.76)
- Takeshi AIDA, Daichi SHIMAMOTO, Kiyoyasu TANAKA"Neighborhood Effects on Side-Selling in Contract Farming: A Spatial Econometric Approach"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Satoru Kumagai, Ikumo Isono, Kenmei Tsubota"Geographical Simulation Analysis of Uzbekistan’s International Logistics Strategy: Corridor Diversification to Overcome the Constraints of Double Landlocked Geography "(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Yuta WATABE"Why the Digital World Isn't Flat"March 2026(IDE ResearchColumns No.75)
- Larry LI, Bo MENG, Lei LEI, Jiabai YE, Jiemin GUO"The Impact of Industrial Value Chain Characteristics on Firms’ Financial Performance: Insights from the US Stock Market"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Yuning GAO, Meng LI, Bo MENG, Kimiko UNO"Job Transfers along Global Value Chains and Their Determinants"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Tsubasa Shibata"Structural Reorganization of ASEAN Price Transmission Networks: A Network Perspective on Global Shock Propagation"(IDE Discussion Papers)
Latest Publications
The Developing Economies Volume 64, Number 1(March 2026)
The Developing Economies Volume 63, Number 4(December 2025)
The Developing Economies, Volume 63, Number 4(December 2025)
The Developing Economies Volume 63, Number 3(September 2025)
The Developing Economies, Volume 63, Number 3(September 2025)
The Developing Economies Volume 63, Number 2(June 2025)
The Developing Economies Volume 62, Number 4(December 2024)
The Developing Economies, Volume 62, Number 4(December 2024)
Discussion Paper
- "The ‘China Shock’ and middle-income economies: threats to industrialization and human capital formation"
- "Local labor market effects of FDI: job growth and skills demand in Vietnam"
- "Where is the chokepoint? Mapping supply chain vulnerabilities using firm-to-firm transaction data"
- "Neighborhood Effects on Side-Selling in Contract Farming: A Spatial Econometric Approach"
- "Geographical Simulation Analysis of Uzbekistan’s International Logistics Strategy: Corridor Diversification to Overcome the Constraints of Double Landlocked Geography "
Seminars & Events
Research Projects
- Studies based on Geographical Simulation Model (IDE-GSM)
- Publication of Latin America Report
- Africa Report
- A Migrant’s First Year in Japan: Evidence from their Family, Workplace, and Community
- Myanmar Refugees and the Development of Cross-Border Economic Zones
- Did NAPs really facilitate implementation of UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? – Case studies in Asia –
- Analysis of the fiscal structure in Singapore and the role and contribution of NIRC
- Study on Children's Living Environments in Developing Asian Countries
- How Do Emerging South-South Trades and FDIs Affect Developing Countries' Supply Chain Competition and Cooperation? A Case Study of the Automotive Industry
- Does labor market volatility reduce education? Evidence from Indonesia
- Application and Analysis of the OLG Model Regarding the Social Security System in Thailand
- Vulnerability, Reorganization, and Consolidation of the Rentier States in the Middle East
- Urban Labor Markets in sub-Saharan Africa: Preparations for case studies
- The Overseas Investments of Chinese Companies in the Context of the Restructuring of International Division of Labor
- Political and Economic Changes in Thailand under Prayuth Administration, 2014-23
- The Distributional Impact of Free Trade Agreements: The Case of Cambodia
- Refining the Extended Japan-Taiwan International Input-Output Table Using Firm-level Data
- Factors of digital agriculture diffusion in developing countries and their socio-economic impacts: A case of agricultural drone diffusion in Vietnam.
- Compilation and Use of the Asian International Input-Output Database
- The Global South Countries of Regional Power: Brazil, South Africa
- Workers and Firms in Africa
- Water management and sustainability in the modern Central Asia
- Japan and Taiwan's Economic Relations: Horizontalization, Diversification and Increased embeddedness
- Cultural Capital and Social Stratification in Emerging Asian Countries: A Study from Piano Culture
- Domestic Institution and International Cooperation: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection
- Challenges for SMEs in the Gulf Arab States
- Gender Differences in Commuting Constraints and their Economic Impact: An Application of Quantitative Urban Models
- Features of New Businesses in Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study of Indonesia and Vietnam
- Structural change and agricultural resource allocation in rural Thailand
- Impacts of Uncertainty on International Capital Flows in ASEAN and Other Emerging Countries
- Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Human Capital Investment in Polygynous Households in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Transformation of local governance system and civil society in Thailand: A Case study of the Khonkaen Model
- Empirical Analyses of Culture: Impacts of Culture on Individual Behaviors, Attitudes, and Subjective Well-being
- The Business Strategy of Merchants and the Weakly-organized Market in Iran
- Elucidating the actual situation and the migrant policies of sending and receiving countries on international labor migration after COVID-19
- The net effects of foreign investment on employment and demand for skills: Vietnam
- International Treaty Making on Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO
- Empirical analyses on the origin of child fostering in Africa
- Formal Financial Market and Informal Lending under Economic Shocks: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
- Examining minimum wage impacts: Effects of market concentration
- Religion or Patriarchy: What Hinders the Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan?
- Workers and Firms in Africa
- Water management and sustainability in the modern Central Asia
- A Migrant’s First Year: Family, Workplace, and Community in Japan
- Japan and Taiwan's Economic Relations: Horizontalization, Diversification and Increased embeddedness
- Cultural Capital and Social Stratification in Emerging Asian Countries: A Study from Piano Culture
- Domestic Institution and International Cooperation: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection
- Challenges for SMEs in the Gulf Arab States
- Gender Differences in Commuting Constraints and their Economic Impact: An Application of Quantitative Urban Models
- Changing Trade and Industrial Structure in Brunei Darussalam: The Role of China and its Geopolitical Background
- Structural change and agricultural resource allocation in rural Thailand
- Features of New Businesses in Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study of Indonesia and Vietnam
- Impacts of Uncertainty on International Capital Flows in ASEAN and Other Emerging Countries
- A Basic Research for the Construction of International Input-Output Database for the Asia-Pacific Region
- Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Human Capital Investment in Polygynous Households in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Transformation of local governance system and civil society in Thailand: A Case study of the Khonkaen Model
- Empirical Analyses of Culture: Impacts of Culture on Individual Behaviors, Attitudes, and Subjective Well-being
- The Business Strategy of Merachnats and the Weakly-organized Market in Iran
- Elucidating the actual situation and the migrant policies of sending and receiving countries on international labor migration after COVID-19
- The net effects of foreign investment on employment and demand for skills: Vietnam
- International Treaty Making on Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO
- A Preliminary Study on the living environment of Children in Asian Countries
- Empirical analyses on the origin of child fostering in Africa
- Formal Financial Market and Informal Lending under Economic Shocks: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
- Business and Human Rights: Global Trends and Asia
- Economic Impact of Low Fertility and Aging Population in Thailand
- Microfinace in India:30 years development and contemporary digitalaization
- Coordination and Expansion of Practical Economic Models
- Smart manufacturing development in Vietnam and Thailand in comparative perspectives
- Japan-Bangladesh Relationship at 50：Achievements and Challenges
- Examining minimum wage impacts: Effects of market concentration
- New City Developments in Egypt
- Indonesia at a Juncture: Evaluation of the Jokowi Government and Challenges for the Next Government
- Environmental governance in China: environmentalism and authoritarianism
- Anatomy of sea-based regionalism
- Global brain circulation and innovation dynamics in East Asia
- Compilation of an Extended 2011 Japan-Taiwan International Input-Output Table
- The Distributional Effects of Trade and Consumption Heterogeneity
- Economic Impacts of US-China Trade Disputes
- Religion or Patriarchy: What Hinders the Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan?
- Climate Change Governance under Sino-US Rivalry
- Merger & Acquisition/Consolidations of the Rural Bank Sector and Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
- Studies based on Geographical Simulation Model (IDE-GSM)
- Publication of Latin America Report
- Africa Report