{"title":"Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or the Right? by Olivia Cheung, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2023, 190 pp.","authors":"John K. Yasuda","doi":"10.1111/deve.12423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China's Chance to Lead: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization by Richard W. Carney, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, xix + 363 pp.","authors":"Alvin Camba","doi":"10.1111/deve.12421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking the Mold: India's Untraveled Path to Prosperity by Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2024, xxxii + 298 pp.","authors":"Tirthankar Roy","doi":"10.1111/deve.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land Value, and Urban Transport and Amenities: Evidence From Antananarivo, Madagascar","authors":"Atsushi Iimi","doi":"10.1111/deve.12415","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12415","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although urbanization is an engine of growth, many African cities are overly crowded with massive traffic congestion and high housing prices, pushing the poor away to unfavorable settlements or remote suburban areas and making them commute long. The paper sheds light on the relationship between land value and urban attributes in a rapidly growing African city, Antananarivo, Madagascar. It shows that the land value gradient is steep with an elasticity of −0.78 with respect to trip time to the city center. Thus, housing prices are overshooting. Better urban planning is needed through improving transport accessibility by minibus. Other urban infrastructure services, such as piped water and garbage collection, and urban amenities are also important to add to land values. Spatial heterogeneity is found across different locations in the city. While some areas require clean water and climate resilience, others need more city amenities, such as parks.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/deve.12415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History by Thomas J. Barfield, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, xii + 366 pp.","authors":"Christopher Chase-Dunn","doi":"10.1111/deve.12416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141644468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Institutional Quality Causes Financial Development?","authors":"Hira Yousaf, Khalid Riaz","doi":"10.1111/deve.12410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12410","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Institutional quality has received considerable attention in recent years as a potential determinant of variation in the level of financial development across countries. The current paper critically reviews the literature linking formal and informal institutions and financial development. It discusses the main theories in this regard—namely, legal origins theory, the new political economy of finance, and cultural finance. The paper provides an overview of the latest empirical research in each of these areas with a focus on the data and methods used. The directions for further research are also highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Value Chain Participation and Firm Exit During COVID-19: Evidence from Emerging Countries","authors":"Ngoc Thang Doan","doi":"10.1111/deve.12411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12411","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper uncovers the nexus between global value chain participation and firm exit during COVID-19 using merged data from World Bank Enterprises Survey and the Enterprise Survey Follow-Up on COVID-19. Empirical results suggest that participation in global value chain could positively extend firm survival and is robust to several specifications, including alternative measures of firm exit and global value chain participation. Further analysis indicates that global value chain participation helps a firm to improve productivity, enhance bargaining power, and mitigate financial constraints, thereby lifting the firm survival. Our paper contributes to understanding how global value chain participation influences firm exit, suggesting several policy and managerial implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"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.","authors":"Camille Lyans Cole","doi":"10.1111/deve.12413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}