{"title":"Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China by Zhu Qian, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2022, ix + 229 pp.","authors":"Zheng Wang","doi":"10.1111/deve.12352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12352","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":"50128447","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 Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies by Stein Ringen, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2022, 215 pp.","authors":"Stephan Haggard","doi":"10.1111/deve.12351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50117376","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":"Peace, Preference, and Property: Return Migration after Violent Conflict by Sandra F. Joireman, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2022, xv + 176 pp.","authors":"Karl Cordell","doi":"10.1111/deve.12350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148396","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":"Spatial Income Inequality, Convergence, and Regional Development in a Lower Middle-Income Country: Satellite Evidence from the Philippines","authors":"Jesson A. Pagaduan","doi":"10.1111/deve.12354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines spatial income inequality and convergence in the Philippines—a lower middle-income country with historically high inequality—and its course over the process of economic development. Combining higher quality nighttime lights (NTLs) with gridded population data, I construct subnational measures of spatial inequality for the 17 administrative regions in the country in the period 2000–2020. Using this unique dataset, I first document the tremendous improvement in income disparities over the last two decades. Income per capita across provinces has converged rapidly, and income dispersion within administrative regions has narrowed markedly. Then, I uncover a U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic development, which is robust; across alternative measures of inequality; to the outlier effects of highly urbanized cities; across parametric and semiparametric specifications; to business-cycle effects; and to persistence of spatial inequality. Finally, I confirm that structural transformation acts as a transmission channel of this U-shaped link.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146934","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":"Hard and soft factors of trade facilitation and export diversification: Evidence for developing and the least developed countries","authors":"Zühal Kurul","doi":"10.1111/deve.12349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how developing and the least developed countries (LDCs) can foster export diversification by considering trade facilitation as an effective policy option. Unlike previous studies, this paper constructs composite indicators—namely, hard and soft factors of trade facilitation—to better clarify which trade facilitation aspect is a matter of priority. Also, it uses the number of products and markets based on Harmonized System (HS) six-digit level as export diversification measures. Finally, it investigates the differentiated impacts of hard and soft factors on export diversification in the LDCs. For the period 2007–17 and 92 countries, the results reveal that border efficiency promotes variety in products and markets, and the availability and quality of infrastructure enhances variety in markets for the whole sample of countries. Moreover, strengthening the availability and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) plays a significant role in the LDCs' export diversification.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50135029","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 Higher Education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and Challenges edited by C. Raj Kumar, Mousumi Mukherjee, Tatiana Belousova, and Nisha Nair, Singapore,Springer, 2022, xix + 231 pp.","authors":"Jandhyala B G Tilak","doi":"10.1111/deve.12348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50127895","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":"Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet by Glenn DenningNew York, NY,Columbia University Press, 2023, 448 pp.","authors":"C. Peter Timmer","doi":"10.1111/deve.12346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119501","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":"Performance of community-based tank irrigation system and its determinants: Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India","authors":"Sarujan Sathiyamoorthy, Kei Kajisa, Takeshi Sakurai","doi":"10.1111/deve.12347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Irrigation tanks are classic examples of common pool resources that have been traditionally managed by local communities. However, the tank performance under community management in Tamil Nadu has declined over the last few decades and threatened the local livelihoods. This study investigates the effect of community management on irrigation tank performance using village-level two-period data collected across 100 tank-intensive villages in Tamil Nadu. To address the problems encountered in the subjective measures, this study adopts an objective assessment method using the satellite imageries of Landsat-7 to derive tank performance measures. Satellite-derived data are then incorporated with the field survey data and used in the analysis. The results show that community participation in tank management has a significant positive impact on tank performance, suggesting that strengthening traditional institutions in irrigation tank management can be a viable strategy for reviving tank irrigation systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146751","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":"Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia by Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2022, xxxi + 442 pp.","authors":"Jinn-yuh Hsu","doi":"10.1111/deve.12345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/deve.12345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46525,"journal":{"name":"Developing Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50130078","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}