The Developing Economies

1996 - 2025

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Volume 58, issue 4, 2020

Introduction to the Special Issue on Pathways to Prosperity in Vietnam: Structural and Transitional Inequality in the Distribution of Opportunity pp. 267-275

Emi Kojin and Ian Coxhead

Political Elite in Contemporary Vietnam: The Origin and Evolution of the Dominant Stratum pp. 276-300

Futaba Ishizuka

Top Corporate Leaders in Vietnam's Transitional Economy: Origins and Career Pathways pp. 301-331

Mai Fujita

Persistent Privilege? Institutional Education Gaps during Vietnam's Economic Boom pp. 332-359

Diep Phan and Ian Coxhead

Diversifying Factors of Income Inequality in the Rural Mekong Delta: Evidence of Commune‐Level Heterogeneity pp. 360-391

Emi Kojin

Asian Transformations: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations edited by Deepak Nayyar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xxiv + 577 pp. Resurgent Asia: Diversity in Development by Deepak Nayyar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xx + 295 pp pp. 392-396

Machiko Nissanke

Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future edited by Thomas Fingar and Jean C. Oi, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, xxi + 446 pp pp. 397-399

Martin King Whyte

The Roots of Revolt: A Political Economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak by Angela Joya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xx + 271 pp pp. 400-402

Housam Darwisheh

Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia by Kathryn C. Ibata‐Arens, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2019, xiii + 338 pp pp. 403-406

Gerald Hane

Trade Logistics in Landlocked and Resource Cursed Asian Countries edited by Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Nagesh Shukla, Charles Harvie, and Odbayar Erdenetsogt, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xvii + 226 pp pp. 406-409

Prema-chandra Athukorala

Presidents versus Federalism in the National Legislative Process: The Argentine Senate in Comparative Perspective by Hirokazu Kikuchi, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xx + 295 pp pp. 409-413

Valeria Palanza

Volume 58, issue 3, 2020

The Effect of Exporting on Creative Destruction and a Plant's Average Product Characteristics in Japan and Korea pp. 195-226

Chin Hee Hahn and Keiko Ito

Transportation Costs in Archipelagos: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 227-241

Kazunobu Hayakawa, Ikumo Isono and Satoru Kumagai

Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa by Nitsan Chorev, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, xii + 305 pp pp. 242-245

Keun Lee

Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia by Enze Han, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, xiii + 240 pp pp. 245-247

Robert H. Taylor

The Belt Road and Beyond: State‐Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 by Min Ye, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020, xvi + 252 pp pp. 248-250

Hiroki Takeuchi

African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, Policy by Christopher Cramer, John Sender, and Arkebe Oqubay, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, xiv + 319 pp pp. 251-254

Ben Fine

Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank, Manila, ADB, 2020, xxix + 583 pp pp. 254-257

Charles Timmer

Myanmar's Foreign Exchange Market: Controls, Reforms, and Informal Market by Koji Kubo, Singapore, Springer, 2018, xviii + 126 pp pp. 257-260

Fumiharu Mieno

Volume 58, issue 2, 2020

Cross‐Border Vertical Integration and Technology in Factory Asia: Evidence from Korea pp. 99-133

Hyunbae Chun, Jung Hur, Doyoung Kim and Nyeong Seon Son

Governance, Information Spillovers, and Productivity of Local Firms: Toward an Integrated Approach to Foreign Direct Investment and Global Value Chains pp. 134-174

Yoshimichi Murakami and Keijiro Otsuka

More Money, More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America by Marcelo Bergman, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, ix + 392 pp pp. 175-177

Lucía Dammert

Inequality in Public School Admission in Urban China: Discourses, Practices and New Solutions by Jing Liu, Singapore, Springer, 2018, xxi + 221 pp pp. 177-179

Charlene Tan

Modernizing VATs in Africa by Sijbren Cnossen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xv + 350 pp pp. 180-182

Richard Bird

Votes for Survival: Relational Clientelism in Latin America by Simeon Nichter, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018, xvi + 302 pp pp. 182-185

Yuriko Takahashi

The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking since 1952 by Khalid Ikram, Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2018, xx + 428 pp pp. 186-189

Housam Darwisheh

Volume 58, issue 1, 2020

Relational Contracting for Rural Artisanal Products: The Case of the Lao Handweaving Industry pp. 3-29

Akihiko Ohno

Convergence Success and the Middle‐Income Trap pp. 30-62

Jong-Wha Lee

Child Labor and Rainfall Deviation: Panel Data Evidence from Rural Vietnam pp. 63-76

Trong‐Anh Trinh, Alberto Posso and Simon Feeny

Uneven Centuries: Economic Development of Turkey since 1820 by Şevket Pamuk, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2018, xvi + 352 pp pp. 77-79

M. Aykut Attar

Employment and Re‐industrialisation in Post Soeharto Indonesia by Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin and Anis Chowdhury, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xxiv + 221 pp pp. 80-82

Anne Booth

Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia edited by Kenji Otsuka, Singapore, Springer, 2019, viii +225 pp pp. 82-85

Asit K Biswas

What Can We Learn from Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia? A Rejoinder to Asit K. Biswas's Book Review pp. 85-89

Kenji Otsuka

Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century by Andrew Yeo, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2019, xvi + 242 pp pp. 89-91

Mark Beeson

Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change by Anna K. Boucher and Justin Gest, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, xiv + 246 pp pp. 91-93

Kelsey P Norman

Volume 57, issue 4, 2019

Wage Penalty for Temporary Workers in Turkey: Evidence From Quantile Regressions pp. 283-310

Anil Duman

Status Quo or Pluralism? Dominant Party Rule and People's Preferences in Singapore pp. 311-336

Takeshi Kawanaka

Changes in trade variety, substitutability, and terms of trade effect: Evidence from south korea pp. 337-361

Kichun Kang

China‐Africa and an Economic Transformation edited by Arkebe Oqubay and Justin Yifu Lin, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xx + 342 pp pp. 362-364

Rhys Jenkins

How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America by Rhys Jenkins, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xix + 407 pp pp. 365-367

Thomas P. Narins

The Art of Economic Catch‐Up: Barriers, Detours and Leapfrogging in Innovation Systems by Keun Lee, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xxiii + 279 pp pp. 367-371

Ana Burcharth

Diversity of Capitalisms in Latin America by Ilán Bizberg, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xxxviii + 362 pp pp. 371-374

Kaori Baba

Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy by David Altman, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xxiii + 258 pp pp. 374-377

Marisa Kellam

Volume 57, issue 3, 2019

Industrial Distribution and LMDI Decomposition of Trade‐Embodied CO2 in China pp. 211-232

Zi Cao and Jie Wei

The Impacts of Import Penetration on Regional Income Inequality in China: A Global Value Chain Perspective pp. 233-256

Yanfang Wang and Shumei Chen

New Firm Survival in Developing Countries: Evidence From Kosovo pp. 257-273

Silviano Esteve‐Pérez and Fadil Sahiti

Food Loss and Food Waste: Causes and Solutions by Michael Blakeney, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2019, xi + 224 pp pp. 274-276

Kadambot H M Siddique

Volume 57, issue 2, 2019

Do Consumption Habit and Income Difference Eliminate the Risk Premium in Chinese Capital Market? pp. 99-124

Yajie Wang, Zhongyuan Geng and Wuting Yang

Skill Sorting and Production Linkages: Evidence from India pp. 125-158

Yoko Asuyama

Assessing the Growth Effect of Financial Liberalization in the Presence of Financial Crises: A Case Study of Tiger Cub Economies pp. 159-193

Pei‐Chien Lin and Claire Y. C. Liang

Gender and Employment in Rural China by Jing Song, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, xi + 149 pp pp. 194-197

Fumiki Tahara

Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change in International Relations by Phillip Y. Lipscy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, xv + 325 pp pp. 197-205

Shintaro Hamanaka

Volume 57, issue 1, 2019

Understanding the Situation of China's Left‐Behind Children: A Mixed‐Methods Analysis pp. 3-35

Fang Chang, Yaojiang Shi, Amber Shen, Asa Kohrman, Katherine Li, Qinqin Wan, Kaleigh Kenny and Scott Rozelle

The Impact of Ritual Bathing in a Holy Hindu River on Waterborne Diseases pp. 36-54

Soumi Roy Chowdhury, Alok Bohara, Hari Katuwal, José A. Pagán and Jennifer A. Thacher

Regional Differences in the Gender Earnings Gap in Brazil: Development, Discrimination, and Inequality pp. 55-82

Silvio Tai and Izete Bagolin

Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia by Megha Amrith, Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2017, xiii + 226 pp pp. 83-89

Rebecca S. Gaddi

Remittance Income and Social Resilience among Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh by Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, Vaughan Higgins, and Peter Harry Ballis, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, xxii + 281 pp pp. 89-92

Toshihiko Suda