Kenta Goto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenta Goto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenta |
| FAMILY NAME | Goto |
| SIGNATURE | GOTO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5825-1924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kumagai Satoru and Nakamura Masashi. Economic Development Strategies: Insights from Malaysia on Overcoming the ‘Middle-Income Trap.’ Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, 2023, 285p
Agricultural modernisation and rural livelihood strategies: The case of rice farming in Laos
This article examines how agricultural households in Laos have been affected by policies designed to transform agriculture from a subsistence-oriented sector into a dynamic and competitive one through intensification and commercialisation, and how the livelihood strategies of these households have in turn affected the modernisation goals established by the government. While overall rice output in Laos has grown significantly over the past few dec…
Labor-intensive industries in middle-income countries: Traps, challenges, and the local garment market in Thailand
How can labor-intensive industries in middle-income countries avoid the ‘middle-income trap’ and evolve as dynamic industries? This article addresses this question by focusing on the local garment industry in Thailand. Thailand's garment industry became fully integrated into international production networks in the 1980s, and was once among the main drivers of its manufacturing-based export growth. However, with rising wages and labor shortages, …
Upgrading, Relocating, Informalising? Local Strategies in the Era of Globalisation: The Thai Garment Industry
The garment industry was once the leading manufacturing-based export sector of Thailand. While its international competitiveness has been diminishing since the 1990s primarily due to increases in wage levels, it nevertheless remains an important source of income for a large number of workers. Given this fact, we look at what survival strategies garment suppliers have adopted. In particular, this paper will examine the Thai garment industry from a…
Social networks, informal trade credit and its effects on business growth: Evidence from the local garment trade in Vietnam
This paper argues that while informal institutions in developing countries are effective in facilitating exchange, without complementing formal institutions it will constrain their prospects of business growth. Ample research studies made in this field suggest that social networks are one of the key determinants of informal credit supply. However, such network effects are limited simply because supplier-buyer relationships based on such networks …
Meeting the challenge of China: The Vietnamese garment industry in the post MFA era
Although China has diversified into sophisticated, higher value‐added exports, it is still a formidable competitor in global markets for basic labour‐intensive products. It is the world's largest exporting country of textiles and garments, the archetypical driver of industrial growth both in developed countries in the past and in most newly industrializing countries more recently. When the export restrictions under the Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MF…
Competitiveness and decent work in Global Value Chains: Substitutionary or Complementary
Global Value Chains (GVCs) serve as significant sources of employment for developing countries, with various impacts upon their labour markets and workers. While participation in GVCs is important for economic upgrading, there is concern about a ‘race to the bottom’ happening in global competition. This paper attempts to understand how economic upgrading and decent working conditions interact in the proliferating GVCs, by looking at the garment e…
Challenges to the Cambodian Garment Industry in the Global Garment Value Chain
Challenges to the Cambodian Garment Industry in the Global Garment Value Chain
Upgrading, Relocating, Informalising? Local Strategies in the Era of Globalisation: The Thai Garment Industry
The garment industry was once the leading manufacturing-based export sector of Thailand. While its international competitiveness has been diminishing since the 1990s primarily due to increases in wage levels, it nevertheless remains an important source of income for a large number of workers. Given this fact, we look at what survival strategies garment suppliers have adopted. In particular, this paper will examine the Thai garment industry from a…
Meeting the challenge of China: The Vietnamese garment industry in the post MFA era
Although China has diversified into sophisticated, higher value‐added exports, it is still a formidable competitor in global markets for basic labour‐intensive products. It is the world's largest exporting country of textiles and garments, the archetypical driver of industrial growth both in developed countries in the past and in most newly industrializing countries more recently. When the export restrictions under the Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MF…
Competitiveness and decent work in Global Value Chains: Substitutionary or Complementary
Global Value Chains (GVCs) serve as significant sources of employment for developing countries, with various impacts upon their labour markets and workers. While participation in GVCs is important for economic upgrading, there is concern about a ‘race to the bottom’ happening in global competition. This paper attempts to understand how economic upgrading and decent working conditions interact in the proliferating GVCs, by looking at the garment e…
Agricultural modernisation and rural livelihood strategies: The case of rice farming in Laos
This article examines how agricultural households in Laos have been affected by policies designed to transform agriculture from a subsistence-oriented sector into a dynamic and competitive one through intensification and commercialisation, and how the livelihood strategies of these households have in turn affected the modernisation goals established by the government. While overall rice output in Laos has grown significantly over the past few dec…
Challenges to the Cambodian Garment Industry in the Global Garment Value Chain
Meeting the challenge of China: The Vietnamese garment industry in the post MFA era
Although China has diversified into sophisticated, higher value‐added exports, it is still a formidable competitor in global markets for basic labour‐intensive products. It is the world's largest exporting country of textiles and garments, the archetypical driver of industrial growth both in developed countries in the past and in most newly industrializing countries more recently. When the export restrictions under the Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MF…
Competitiveness and decent work in Global Value Chains: Substitutionary or Complementary
Global Value Chains (GVCs) serve as significant sources of employment for developing countries, with various impacts upon their labour markets and workers. While participation in GVCs is important for economic upgrading, there is concern about a ‘race to the bottom’ happening in global competition. This paper attempts to understand how economic upgrading and decent working conditions interact in the proliferating GVCs, by looking at the garment e…
Social networks, informal trade credit and its effects on business growth: Evidence from the local garment trade in Vietnam
This paper argues that while informal institutions in developing countries are effective in facilitating exchange, without complementing formal institutions it will constrain their prospects of business growth. Ample research studies made in this field suggest that social networks are one of the key determinants of informal credit supply. However, such network effects are limited simply because supplier-buyer relationships based on such networks …
Labor-intensive industries in middle-income countries: Traps, challenges, and the local garment market in Thailand
How can labor-intensive industries in middle-income countries avoid the ‘middle-income trap’ and evolve as dynamic industries? This article addresses this question by focusing on the local garment industry in Thailand. Thailand's garment industry became fully integrated into international production networks in the 1980s, and was once among the main drivers of its manufacturing-based export growth. However, with rising wages and labor shortages, …
Upgrading, Relocating, Informalising? Local Strategies in the Era of Globalisation: The Thai Garment Industry
The garment industry was once the leading manufacturing-based export sector of Thailand. While its international competitiveness has been diminishing since the 1990s primarily due to increases in wage levels, it nevertheless remains an important source of income for a large number of workers. Given this fact, we look at what survival strategies garment suppliers have adopted. In particular, this paper will examine the Thai garment industry from a…
Agricultural modernisation and rural livelihood strategies: The case of rice farming in Laos
This article examines how agricultural households in Laos have been affected by policies designed to transform agriculture from a subsistence-oriented sector into a dynamic and competitive one through intensification and commercialisation, and how the livelihood strategies of these households have in turn affected the modernisation goals established by the government. While overall rice output in Laos has grown significantly over the past few dec…
Kumagai Satoru and Nakamura Masashi. Economic Development Strategies: Insights from Malaysia on Overcoming the ‘Middle-Income Trap.’ Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, 2023, 285p
Economics (6 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Global trade and economics (4 works) · Clothing (3 works) · Commerce (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (2 works)