Papers & Reports http://www.ide.go.jp/ Copyright (C) JETRO. All rights reserved. en http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/321.html During the first Kibaki administration (2002-2007), a movement by the former Mau Mau fighters demanded recognition for the role that they had played in the achievement of independence. They began to d... Discussion Papers
Keywords: Kenya; ethnicity; Kibaki; colonization; Kikuyu; compensation; Mau Mau]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/320.html The installment of a new government has augmented the prospect for implementing disinflation and exchange rate unification in Myanmar. A close look at the state budget shows that the reform of the bud... Discussion Papers
Keywords: Myanmar, state economic enterprises, disinflation, exchange rate
unification
JEL classification:H61, O24, O53]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/319.html The paper explores the effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in India using the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS). Endogeneity of fertility is... Discussion Papers
Keywords: birth order, sibling sex composition, household resource allocation, India
JEL classification: J13, J16, O12, O53]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/318.html We examine transport modal decision by multinational firms to shed light on the role of freight logistics in multinational activity. Using a firm-level survey in Southeast Asia, we show that foreign o... Discussion Papers
Keywords: Transport mode, Logistics, Multinational firms, Multinomial logit
JEL classification: F15, F23, R41]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/317.html This paper examines the factors that prevent slum children aged 5 to 14 from gaining access to schooling in light of the worsening urban poverty and sizable increase in rural-to-urban migration. Bias ... Discussion Papers
Keywords: elementary education, slums, migration
JEL classification: I20, N35, O15]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/315.html Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO’s firm surveys which i... Discussion Papers
Keywords: skilled differentiation, high tariff policy, export-platform FDI
JEL classification: F14, F15, F23]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/314.html Two new developments in the global landscape - growing concerns towards global warming and the rising prices of commodities – require countries to craft new growth strategies. These recent development... Discussion Papers
Keywords: green growth, environment and trade, industrialization
JEL classification: F18, O14, Q01]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/313.html In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea. Looking at two home countries enables us to tackle endogeneity issues by controlling f... Discussion Papers
Keywords: Export promotion; FTA; Gravity model
JEL classification: F10, F13, F15]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/312.html During the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy in 1990s of China, there was a considerable accrual of deferred payment, and default due to inferior enforcement institutions. T... Discussion Papers
Keywords: trade credit; distribution channel strategy; contract; convergence of mechanisms
JEL classification: L14, L68, L81, D22, G32, O16, O17]]> http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Dp/311.html In this paper, using the worldwide dataset of bilateral tariff rates, we explore how serious the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity is. Our findings are as follow. Firstly, the omission of ... Discussion Papers
Keywords: Gravity; Tariff rates; Free Trade Agreement
JEL classification: F10; F15]]>