The Developing Economies

1996 - 2026

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Volume 64, issue 2, 2026

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Trump 2.0 and the Global Economy” pp. 119-120

Kazunobu Hayakawa

Trade Effects of US Tariffs Under Trump 2.0 pp. 121-142

Kazunobu Hayakawa

Firm‐Level Impacts of Additional US Tariffs Under Trump 2.0: Evidence From Taiwan pp. 143-156

Kuo‐I Chang and Kazunobu Hayakawa

The Effects of US Additional Tariffs in Trump 2.0 on Production and Trade: Evidence From Thailand pp. 157-170

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Souknilanh Keola and Sasatra Sudsawasd

Who Fears Job Losses From US Tariff Hikes? Evidence From Cambodia pp. 171-186

Kiyoyasu Tanaka and Yasushi Ueki

The Everyday Politics of Resources: Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam. By Nga Dao, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025, xviii + 313 pp. US$38.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐178087‐5 pp. 187-188

Christian C. Lentz

Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History. By Vali Nasr, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. xiv + 388 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐126892‐7 pp. 189-190

Satoshi Matsushita

Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society. By John Alekna, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. xiv+359 pp. $35 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐363857‐0 pp. 191-192

Daqing Yang

From Microfinance to Middle Class? How to Improve Female Entrepreneurship Programs in China and India. By Tonia Warnecke, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. ix + 269 pp. £105 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐78347‐637‐4 pp. 193-195

Janice Peterson

Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China. By Siyuan Yin, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. xi + 257 pp. $30 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐364256‐0 pp. 196-198

Kaxton Siu

Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China. By Samantha A. Vortherms, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. xi + 279 pp. $75 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐364018‐4 pp. 199-200

Meina Cai

Volume 64, issue 1, 2026

The Emergent Roles of the Concept of Gentrification: Thinking Space and Fairness in East Asian Cities pp. 3-4

Takashi Machimura

Introduction to the Special Issue on “Neighborhood Transformation in East Asian Cities: Rethinking Gentrification and Global Capitalism” pp. 5-9

Zhe Ren and Lei Ping

Gentrification of Taste and Lifestyle: Shanghai as an Instagrammable Wanghong City pp. 10-21

Lei Ping

Chinese Green Gentrification: Gaze and Ethics in Local Discourses of Sustainable Development pp. 22-39

Michela Bonato

Gentrification Everywhere? Delinking Culture‐Led Regeneration From Gentrification pp. 40-56

Desmond Hok‐Man Sham

Changing Scope of Gentrification in Seoul? Neighborhood Transformation and Displacement in Sangwangsimni and Changsin‐Sungin Industrial Clusters pp. 57-70

Blaž Križnik and Kon Kim

Gentrification, Urban Informality, and Displacement in Bangkok pp. 71-88

Tamaki Endo

Transition of the Post‐Nomadic Districts of Ulaanbaatar pp. 89-99

Katarzyna Golik

The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia. By Neil Loughlin, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. xiii + 172 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177660‐1 pp. 100-102

Sorpong Peou

The Four Talent Giants: National Strategies for Human Resource Development Across Japan, Australia, China, and India. By Gi‐Wook Shin, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. xv + 324 pp. US$140 HC. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐364266‐9 pp. 103-105

Anthony P. D'Costa

Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness Through Intergenerational Relationships. By Qian Liu, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. xi + 219 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 9780520405745 pp. 106-107

Tu Phuong Nguyen

Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier. By Jason Cons, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. xv + 191 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 978‐0‐52‐041418‐1 pp. 108-110

Mushahid Hussain

Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence Since 1945. By Kirsten E. Schulze, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. xvii + 301 pp. $36.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177767‐7 pp. 111-112

Joseph Chinyong Liow

Collateral Damages: Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War. By Nadia El‐Shaarawi, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. xi + 239 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978‐0‐52‐039213‐7 pp. 113-114

Alissa Walter

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 Suarez 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