The Developing Economies

1996 - 2025

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Volume 63, issue 4, 2025

Minimum‐Wage Effects, Compliance, and Firm Size in a Developing Economy: Evidence from Colombia pp. 301-327

Gustavo García Cruz, Christian Posso and Salomé Arango

ROLE OF MICRO‐INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF SILK FILATURE IN JAPAN AND COLONIAL INDIA pp. 328-361

Anirban Mukherjee and Subhasree Sarkar

An Economic History of India: Growth, Income and Inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st Century by Bishnupriya Gupta, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xiv + 219 pp pp. 362-363

Tirthankar Roy

Innovation‐Development Detours for Latecomers: Managing Global–Local Interfaces in the De‐Globalization Era by Keun Lee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, xix + 284 pp pp. 364-367

Elizabeth Thurbon

The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2025, xiv + 365 pp pp. 368-371

Housam Darwisheh

The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism by Srirupa Roy, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2024, ix + 362 pp pp. 372-375

Norio Kondo

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition by Jeffrey Ding, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2024, xiii +306 pp pp. 376-378

Keun Lee

Volume 63, issue 3, 2025

Basel III Capital Requirements and Lending: The Case of the D‐SIB Capital Buffer in Thailand pp. 225-261

Attavit Prachakseranee

Diversity Matters in the World of Finance: Does Ethnic and Religious Diversity Hinder Financial Development in Developing Countries? pp. 262-284

Saqib Amin and Syed Mansoob Murshed

Seeds of Mobilization: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy by Joan E. Cho, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2024, xxi + 253 pp pp. 285-287

Myunghee Lee

Made in China: When US‐China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade by Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2024, x + 335 pp pp. 287-289

Wendy Leutert

Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets edited by Glenda Strachan, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, xviii + 380 pp pp. 290-292

Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia by Marcus Mietzner, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2023, xvii + 285 pp pp. 292-295

Koichi Kawamura

Transforming Poor Economies: Effective Development Strategies for Agriculture and Industry by Keijiro Otsuka, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, x + 234 pp pp. 295-298

Yuko Nakano

Volume 63, issue 2, 2025

The Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence From a Lower Middle‐Income Country pp. 137-182

Cuong Nguyen

The Relationship between Air Quality and Financial Risk Aversion: A View of Hetero‐Geneous Response to Air Pollution pp. 183-206

Xunzhou Ma, Liurong Liang, Zhen‐Xing Wu, Zhicheng Cao, Yibo You and Cheng Xue

Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq by Austin J. Knuppe, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, xxii + 284 pp pp. 207-209

George L. Simpson

Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad by Alissa Walter, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2025, xvi + 332 pp pp. 209-212

Austin J. Knuppe

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins by Max Gallien, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, xiv + 346 pp pp. 212-215

Florian Weigand

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State by Yingyao Wang, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2024, vi + 291 pp pp. 215-218

Muyang Chen

Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China by Shellen Xiao Wu, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xvi + 309 pp pp. 218-222

Graham F. Odell

Volume 63, issue 1, 2025

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Text as Data in the Study of Politics in Developing Countries” pp. 3-8

Hirokazu Kikuchi and Keiichi Kubo

Uncovering Xi Jinping's Policy Agenda: Text As Data Approach pp. 9-46

Jaehwan Lim, Asei Ito and Hongyong Zhang

Electoral Incentives and Negotiated Settlements: Legislative Deliberation on the Mindanao Conflict in the Philippines pp. 47-69

Aya Watanabe

Do Elections Promote Conflict? A Quantitative Text Analysis of Postwar Iraqi News Coverage pp. 70-96

Dai Yamao

A Computational Analysis of Ideological Positions, Emotional Stance, and Support for Presidential Candidates in Turkey pp. 97-125

Erdem Yörük, Şükrü Atsızelti, M. Fuat Kına, Fırat Duruşan, Oğuz Gürerk, Melih Can Yardı, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Tolga Etgü, Murat Koyuncu and Işık Topçu

The Latecomer's Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China's Development Finance by Muyang Chen, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2024, xii + 224 pp pp. 126-128

Peter Morgan

Labour and Capital Use in Indian Manufacturing: Structural Aspects by Anjali Tandon, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2024, xvii + 177 pp pp. 129-130

Mehak Majeed

The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women by Fauzia Husain, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2024, xi + 290 pp pp. 130-133

Maria Rashid

Volume 62, issue 3, 2024

Successful Foreign Direct Investment Through the Development of Parts Supply Industries in the Host Country: A Study of India's Automobile Manufacturing Sector pp. 195-237

Manabu Furuta, Takahiro Sato and Keijiro Otsuka

Who Suffers the Most During the COVID‐19 Pandemic? Evidence From Thailand pp. 238-268

Sasiwimon Paweenawat and Lusi Liao

Technological Innovation, Productivity, and Global Value Chains Participation of Philippine Manufacturers pp. 269-304

Adrian Mendoza

Reinventing the Chinese City by Richard Hu, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2023, viii + 306 pp pp. 305-308

Tianchen Dai

The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism by Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xvi + 229 pp pp. 308-310

Maryann Bylander

Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State by Eve Warburton, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2023, xiv + 233 pp pp. 310-313

James Guild

Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East by Adam Mestyan, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, xxi + 322 pp pp. 313-316

Camille Lyans Cole

Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global Perspective edited by Maria Yudkevich, Philip G. Altbach, and Jamil Salmi, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2023, x + 271 pp pp. 316-319

Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

Volume 62, issue 2, 2024

The Health Costs of Being Born Unwanted pp. 115-138

My Nguyen

Pandemic‐induced De‐urbanization in Indonesia: Urban and Rural Impacts pp. 139-174

Peter Warr and Arief Yusuf

Life beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan by Waqas H. Butt, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xx + 225 pp pp. 175-177

Nausheen H. Anwar

Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries: The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China by Kelan Lu, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2023, xiv + 201 pp pp. 177-180

Hoon Lee

Power and Restraint in China's Rise by Chin‐Hao Huang, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, xviii + 216 pp pp. 180-183

Alice Ba

No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975 by Michael O'Sullivan, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2023, xiv + 386 pp pp. 183-186

Amanda Lanzillo

India as Kingmaker: Status Quo or Revisionist Power by Michael O. Slobodchikoff and Aakriti A. Tandon, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2022, xiv + 164 pp pp. 186-189

Arijit Mazumdar

Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China by Jesse Rodenbiker, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2023, xiii + 248 pp pp. 189-192

Max D. Woodworth

Volume 62, issue 1, 2024

The European Union's safeguard for rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar pp. 3-27

Kiyoyasu Tanaka

Impacts of Tariff Rates on Input Source Choice: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 28-44

Siwage Dharma Negara, Dionisius Narjoko and Kazunobu Hayakawa

Impacts of Trade Liberalization in the Least Developed Countries: Evidence From Lao PDR pp. 45-67

Phouphet Kyophilavong and Kazunobu Hayakawa

Heterogenous impacts of trade liberalization on individual wages: Evidence from Thailand pp. 68-86

Sasatra Sudsawasd and Kazunobu Hayakawa

The Substitution Effect of Preferential Tariffs on Nontariff Measures: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 87-103

Chuc Nguyen and Kazunobu Hayakawa

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China by Martin K. Dimitrov, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, xix + 470 pp pp. 104-106

Ning Leng

Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism by Taiyi Sun, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2023, xv + 283 pp pp. 107-108

Bin Xu

The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry by Le Lin, Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 2022, 244 pp pp. 109-111

Yingyi Ma