The Developing Economies

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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

Volume 61, issue 4, 2023

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Economic Impacts of Tariff Change in Asia” pp. 271-277

Shujiro Urata

Tariff pass‐through: The case of china's WTO accession pp. 278-296

Mi Dai

(Asymmetric) tariff‐driven foreign direct investment: Evidence from Korean firm‐level data pp. 297-323

Ju Hyun Pyun

The Substitution Effect of US‐China Trade War on Taiwanese Trade pp. 324-341

Chih‐Hai Yang and Kazunobu Hayakawa

Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt by Hesham Sallam, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, xx + 472 pp pp. 342-345

Housam Darwisheh

India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody, Standford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xii + 511 pp pp. 345-347

Tirthankar Roy

Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop by Lachlan McNamee, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, xi + 240 pp pp. 347-349

Kyosuke Kikuta

The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City by Eli Friedman, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, xiv + 337 pp pp. 349-352

Min Li

Identity Investments: Middle‐Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile by Joel Phillip Stillerman, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2023, xiv + 283 pp pp. 352-355

Kota Miura

Volume 61, issue 3, 2023

Resilience in the time of COVID‐19: Lessons learned from Middle East and North Africa small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises pp. 181-231

Zouheir El‐Sahli and Mouyad Alsamara

Performance of community‐based tank irrigation system and its determinants: Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India pp. 232-252

Sarujan Sathiyamoorthy, Kei Kajisa and Takeshi Sakurai

Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, xiii + 533 pp pp. 253-255

Peter Morgan

The Neighborhood Effect: The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia by Anna Ohanyan, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022, xvi + 288 pp pp. 255-258

Laurence Broers

Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East by Jonathan Wyrtzen, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022, xx + 314 pp pp. 258-261

Chris Rominger

The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by Yuhua Wang, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, xviii + 329 pp pp. 261-264

Peng Peng

Micro‐Evidence for Peacebuilding Theories and Policies edited by Yuichi Kubota, Singapore, Springer, 2022, viii +120 pp pp. 264-267

Wakako Maekawa

Volume 61, issue 2, 2023

Hard and soft factors of trade facilitation and export diversification: Evidence for developing and the least developed countries pp. 75-116

Zühal Kurul

Spatial Income Inequality, Convergence, and Regional Development in a Lower Middle‐Income Country: Satellite Evidence from the Philippines pp. 117-154

Jesson Pagaduan

Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia by Henry Wai‐chung Yeung, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022, xxxi + 442 pp pp. 155-158

Jinn‐yuh Hsu

Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet by Glenn Denning, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2023, 448 pp pp. 158-161

Charles Timmer

Global Higher Education during and beyond COVID‐19: Perspectives and Challenges edited by C. Raj Kumar, Mousumi Mukherjee, Tatiana Belousova, and Nisha Nair, Singapore, Springer, 2022, xix + 231 pp pp. 161-164

Jandhyala B G Tilak

Peace, Preference, and Property: Return Migration after Violent Conflict by Sandra F. Joireman, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2022, xv + 176 pp pp. 164-167

Karl Cordell

How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies by Stein Ringen, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 215 pp pp. 167-169

Stephan Haggard

Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China by Zhu Qian, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2022, ix + 229 pp pp. 169-172

Zheng Wang

The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left by Garett Jones, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022, xi +213 pp pp. 172-175

C. Justin Cook

Volume 61, issue 1, 2023

Returns to Schooling in Thailand: Evidence from the 1978 Compulsory Schooling Law pp. 3-35

Upalat Korwatanasakul

Public expenditures and life satisfaction: Evidence from Turkey pp. 36-56

Ümİt Acar and Abdullah Tİrgİl

Banking on Growth Models: China's Troubled Pursuit of Financial Reform and Economic Rebalancing by Stephen Bell and Hui Feng, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2022, xiv+289 pp pp. 57-59

Shaun Breslin

Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization by Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2022, xiii + 277 pp pp. 60-63

Cheryl Mei‐ting Schmitz

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia by Christopher Carothers, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xi + 290 pp pp. 63-66

Martin K. Dimitrov

Privilege and Anxiety: The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era by Hagen Koo, Ithaka, NY, Cornell University Press, 2022, ix + 146 pp pp. 66-69

Shinji Kojima