Editor's Choice

Virtual Issues
26 May 2021
22 January 2025

Articles in the Editor's Choice section are selected from previous and current issues by the editorial board of The Developing Economies. The objective is to introduce the readers of the journal to articles that are considered particularly valuable or interesting.

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Uncovering Xi Jinping's Policy Agenda: Text As Data Approach

Jaehwan Lim,  Asei Ito,  Hongyong Zhang, 

Land Value, and Urban Transport and Amenities: Evidence From Antananarivo, Madagascar

Atsushi Iimi, 

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

Manabu Furuta,  Takahiro Sato,  Keijiro Otsuka, 

Impacts of Trade Liberalization in the Least Developed Countries: Evidence From Lao PDR

Phouphet Kyophilavong,  Kazunobu Hayakawa, 

The Substitution Effect of US-China Trade War on Taiwanese Trade

Chih-Hai Yang,  Kazunobu Hayakawa, 

Does Dowry Drive Labor Export? Evidence from Pakistan

Ahmed Raza Cheema,  Ian Coxhead, 

Impacts of Vaccination on International Trade During the Pandemic Era

Kazunobu Hayakawa, 

Why Did They Not Borrow? Debt-Averse Farmers In Rural Vietnam

Khoa A. Trinh,  Nathan Berg,  Arlene Garces-Ozanne,  Stephen Knowles, 

Pension Incentives and Retirement Planning in Rural China: Evidence for the New Rural Pension Scheme

Juan Carlos Caro,  Marcela Parada-Contzen, 

ROSCAS as Insurance: Comparing Formal and Informal Methods of Saving among the Unskilled Workers in the Ethiopian Cut-Flower Industry

Eun Jin Ryu,  Aya Suzuki, 

Relational Contracting for Rural Artisanal Products: The Case of the Lao Handweaving Industry

Akihiko Ohno, 

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

Yoshimichi Murakami,  Keijiro Otsuka, 

Introduction to the Special Issue on Pathways to Prosperity in Vietnam: Structural and Transitional Inequality in the Distribution of Opportunity

Emi Kojin,  Ian Coxhead, 

Rent Sharing, Investment, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Employee-Level Data in Vietnam

Thang Ngoc Bach,  Canh Quang Le,  Thang Van Nguyen, 

Impacts of COVID-19 on Global Value Chains

Kazunobu Hayakawa,  Hiroshi Mukunoki,