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Latest Reports
- Rashesh SHRESTHA"Group discussion can complement subsidies in increasing the demand for a stigmatized health product"June 2025(IDE ResearchColumns No.67)
- Kota MIURA"Student Movement in Chile: A Part of or a Protester Against Political Elites?"May 2025(IDE ResearchColumns No.66)
- Diep PHAN and Ian COXHEAD"Upskilling Vietnam’s Private Firms and Labor Force Needs Capital Market Reforms"April 2025(IDE ResearchColumns No.64)
- Wenyin Cheng, Xin Ouyang, Anqi Yu, Bo Meng, Michael Vardanyan"Subjective Perception versus Objective Outcomes: Assessing the Impact of Smart City Pilots on Environmental Quality in China"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Fang-Ting Cheng"National Response Toward Climate Change Under the US–China Rivalry: The Case of the South China Sea, Oceania, and Taiwan"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- CHIBANA Izumi"Protection across the seas: reconstructing dispute resolution mechanisms thorough the Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers"(BRC Research Report No.35)
- Joschka Wanner, Yuta Watabe"Multinational Production, Trade, and Carbon Emissions"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- NIKIEMA Relwendé Apollinaire"Hidden Disparities: Unveiling Intrahousehold Consumption Inequality, Economies of Scale, and Individual Poverty in West Africa"(IDE Discussion Papers)
- Sasiwimon Warunsiri PAWEENAWAT and Lusi Liao"Who Suffers the Most during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Thailand"March 2025(IDE ResearchColumns No.62)
- Yuichi WATANABE"Surgical Productivity Change During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan"February 2025(IDE ResearchColumns No.61)
Latest Publications
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)
The Developing Economies Volume 62, Number 3(September 2024)
The Developing Economies, Volume 62, Number 3(September 2024)
The Developing Economies Volume 62, Number 2(June 2024)
The Developing Economies Volume 61, Number 3(September 2023)
The Developing Economies, Volume 61, Number 3(September 2023)
Discussion Paper
- "Subjective Perception versus Objective Outcomes: Assessing the Impact of Smart City Pilots on Environmental Quality in China"
- "National Response Toward Climate Change Under the US–China Rivalry: The Case of the South China Sea, Oceania, and Taiwan"
- "Multinational Production, Trade, and Carbon Emissions"
- "Hidden Disparities: Unveiling Intrahousehold Consumption Inequality, Economies of Scale, and Individual Poverty in West Africa"
- "From Walking to Driving: Economic Impact of Mountain Roads"
Seminars & Events
- [Seminar] IDE School on Spatial Economics for Young Economists @IDE-JETRO, October 15-17, 2025 Oct 15, 2025(Wednesday) - Oct 17, 2025(Friday)
Research Projects
- Workers and Firms in Africa
- Life histories of African migrants and refugees in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Water management and sustainability in the modern Central Asia
- A Migrant’s First Year: Family, Workplace, and Community in Japan
- Analysis of the Political Consequences of the Student Movement in Chile: On the Policy Change from Neoliberalism to Universal Social Rights
- Cultural Capital and Social Stratification in Emerging Asian Countries: A Study from Piano Culture
- Party-Judicial Relationship in Contemporary Chinese Politics
- Gender Differences in Commuting Constraints and their Economic Impact: An Application of Quantitative Urban Models
- The Criminal Politics in the Drug Trafficking Route
- Structural change and agricultural resource allocation in rural Thailand
- Features of New Businesses in Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study of Indonesia and Vietnam
- 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
- Elucidating the actual situation and the migrant policies of sending and receiving countries on international labor migration after COVID-19
- 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
- International Nurse Migration from India to Non-English Speaking Countries
- Issues around co-development of the social development and public recognition of sign languages in developing countries
- Business and Human Rights: Global Trends and Asia
- Microfinace in India:30 years development and contemporary digitalaization
- Early stage of environmental policy formation process in Taiwan: Focusing on environmental health policy during Chiang Ching-kuo era
- Population Movement in Post Soviet Central Asiaafter 2014 Ukrinian Crisis
- Survival Strategies and Dietary Changes for Ethiopian Urban Residents
- Japan-Bangladesh Relationship at 50：Achievements and Challenges
- Preparing a textbook for Latin America societies in the 21st century
- 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
- Feminist Movement and Debate on "Honor Killing"in Turkey
- Transition of Disability Law and Institution in Asia
- Religion or Patriarchy: What Hinders the Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan?
- An Analysis of Conflicts with Global Survey Data
- Climate Change Governance under Sino-US Rivalry
- Merger & Acquisition/Consolidations of the Rural Bank Sector and Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
- Legal and political institutions in the sphere of social norms: Economic analyses of colonization and the right of a married couple to use separate surnames
- Studies based on Geographical Simulation Model (IDE-GSM)
- Publication of Latin America Report
- Africa Report
- Business and Human Rights: Global Trends and Asia
- Microfinace in India:30 years development and contemporary digitalization
- Early stage of environmental policy formation process in Taiwan: Focusing on environmental health policy during Chiang Ching-kuo era
- Population Movement in Post Soviet Central Asia after 2014 Ukrinian Crisis
- Survival Strategies and Dietary Changes for Ethiopian Urban Residents
- Japan-Bangladesh Relationship at 50：Achievements and Challenges
- A Study of Agriculture as an Industry and Policy Support in the Philippines
- Preparing a textbook for Latin America societies in the 21st century
- 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
- Feminist Movement and Debate on "Honor Killing" in Turkey
- Development Strategy and Green Economy in Thailand
- Transition of Disability Law and Institution in Asia
- Religion or Patriarchy: What Hinders the Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan?
- An Analysis of Conflicts with Global Survey Data
- A Preliminary Analysis on Culture: Its Measurements, Comparison, and Determinants
- The Piano Industry and Social Stratification in Emerging Asian Countries: Preparatory Work for a Study of Cultural Capital
- Political economy of "high-tech agriculture" development policy in Vietnam
- Transnational Social Protection in Southern Africa
- Countermeasures on Marine Plastic Debris in Southeast Asia
- Social Transformation of the Arab Gulf States under the Promoting Social Engagement of Youth
- The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Foreign-trained Nurses' Career Development and Retention in the Nursing Workforce
- Social values and public support for social policy in developing countries: The Turkish case
- Merger & Acquisition/Consolidations of the Rural Bank Sector and Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
- Rise of a new Public-Private Relation in the Economic Nationalism after the Thai Constitutional Revolution
- Interdisciplinary approaches for the One Health research
- Evolving Migrants: How Family Migration Shapes Economy and Society
- Legal and political institutions in the sphere of social norms: Economic analyses of colonization and the right of a married couple to use separate surnames
- Publication of Latin America Report
- Issues around co-development of the social development and public recognition of sign languages in developing countries
- Africa Report