{"title":"Impacts of Trade Liberalization in the Least Developed Countries: Evidence From Lao PDR","authors":"Phouphet Kyophilavong, Kazunobu Hayakawa","doi":"10.1111/deve.12374","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12374","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study empirically investigates the effects of tariff reductions in a least developed country on its economy. Specifically, we focus on tariff reductions based on the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in Laos. First, we analyze how the reduction of AFTA tariff rates in Laos affects Laos's imports from AFTA member countries. Our main finding is that the reduction of AFTA tariffs in Laos does not significantly change Laos's imports. Second, we investigate their effects on plant-level employment. Consistent with the observation of a negligible change in Laos's imports, we find no significant changes in plant-level employment. In short, although Laos decreased its tariff rates against other AFTA members, imports from them did not significantly increase, and no significant changes occurred in employment. We discuss several possible reasons for these insignificant effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84725665","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":"Heterogenous impacts of trade liberalization on individual wages: Evidence from Thailand","authors":"Sasatra Sudsawasd, Kazunobu Hayakawa","doi":"10.1111/deve.12375","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12375","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study empirically examines how trade liberalization changes individuals' wages, with evidence from Thailand. We primarily focus on the effect of Thailand's tariff reduction under the ASEAN free trade regime. We use individual-level employment data for 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016. We find that the reduction in AFTA tariffs in Thailand decreases the relative wages of the more educated and skilled workers. Thus, trade liberalization contributes to narrowing income inequality in terms of education and skills. Contrastingly, we do not find heterogeneous effects according to age, sex, marital status, location, or company size. Moreover, the results do not differ significantly between industries with or without international competitiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83393770","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":"Micro-Evidence for Peacebuilding Theories and Policies edited by Yuichi Kubota, Singapore, Springer, 2022, viii +120 pp.","authors":"Wakako Maekawa","doi":"10.1111/deve.12371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147627","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":"Resilience in the time of COVID-19: Lessons learned from Middle East and North Africa small- and medium-sized enterprises","authors":"Zouheir El-Sahli, Mouyad Alsamara","doi":"10.1111/deve.12372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12372","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Using firm-level panel data from an enterprise survey, we highlight several new findings. The surveyed firms resorted to wage and work hour reductions more readily than layoffs in the wake of the pandemic. Within these firms, larger firms are more resilient, recover faster, and adapt more often. On the sector level, the accommodation and food services sector is the worst affected by most outcomes. Furthermore, we find that switching to remote work is associated with better outcomes, while participating in government assistance programs is not. On the other hand, firms that participate in international trade are more resilient and adaptable during the pandemic. The results of the study carry policy implications relevant to the resilience of small- and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries in times of extreme crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/deve.12372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155349","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":"Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East by Jonathan Wyrtzen, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022, xx + 314 pp.","authors":"Chris Rominger","doi":"10.1111/deve.12365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50135244","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":"The European Union's safeguard for rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar","authors":"Kiyoyasu Tanaka","doi":"10.1111/deve.12366","DOIUrl":"10.1111/deve.12366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following a substantial increase in Indica rice imports from Cambodia and Myanmar, the European Union (EU) adopted safeguard measures to reinstate the common-customs tariff rate of 175 euros per ton from 2019, with progressive liberalization over three years. To estimate the impact of safeguard duties, this paper uses a sample of milled rice imports from 28 EU importers during 2017–20 and adopts a triple-differences approach. The results show that safeguard duties have a significantly negative impact on import values and quantity of affected goods and a significantly positive impact on import prices. Safeguard duties appear to induce trade redirection to other third markets but produce little substitution effects for EU rice producers.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87898712","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":"The Neighborhood Effect: The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia by Anna Ohanyan, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022, xvi + 288 pp.","authors":"Laurence Broers","doi":"10.1111/deve.12356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50151894","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":"The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left by Garett Jones, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022, xi +213 pp.","authors":"C. Justin Cook","doi":"10.1111/deve.12353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50128448","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 Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, xiii + 533 pp.","authors":"Peter J. Morgan","doi":"10.1111/deve.12355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50128418","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}