Keijiro Otsuka
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3709835 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Keijiro Otsuka |
| PRENOMES | Keijiro |
| SOBRENOME | Otsuka |
| ASSINATURA | OTSUKA K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7463-8355 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 236 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Selective Technology Choice, Adaptations, and Industrial Development
It is widely recognized that Japan successfully imported advanced technologies from Europe in the prewar period, particularly in the modern cotton‐spinning and silk‐reeling industries. However, the traditional silk‐ and cotton‐weaving industries also flourished using imported technologies. This study explores key factors contributing to the successful development of the textile industries in prewar Japan by examining long‐term statistical evidenc…
FDI , production networks and firm behaviour
Firms in developing countries can learn advanced technology and management know‐how through foreign direct investment (FDI). The extent (or the lack) of transmission of technology and knowledge depends on the structure of production networks. In the automotive industry, networks consist of vehicle assemblers and their layers of parts suppliers. We used the South African automotive industry as a case study to examine how the behaviour of assembler…
Successful Foreign Direct Investment Through the Development of Parts Supply Industries in the Host Country
Several large multinationals and a few local assemblers dominate the Indian automobile industry. The largest multinational, Maruti Suzuki, entered the Indian automobile industry with a policy of developing local automotive parts manufacturers to achieve high local content ratio. This study seeks to determine the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) in host countries contributes to the growth of automobile parts manufacturers. We use di…
Viewpoint
Beyond Ostrom
We argue that while community forest management is effective in protecting forest resources, as argued by Ostrom, such management may fail to provide the proper incentives to nurture such resources because the benefits of forest management are collectively shared. This study proposes a mixed private and community management system characterized by communal protection of community-owned forest areas and individual management of individually owned …
Economic Viability of Large-scale Irrigation Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa
During the past decade, investments in large-scale irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have come back. Given past experiences, this revival is controversial. This paper examines whether large-scale irrigation construction in SSA is economically viable by estimating how much it would cost if the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya, one of the best performing irrigation schemes in SSA, were to be constructed today. The results show that …
Gains from female education in rural Bangladesh
An inquiry into the process of upgrading rice milling services
Strategy for Transforming Indonesian Agriculture
Today agriculture is expected to help countries such as Indonesia to achieve multiple development goals. These goals include not only food security but also higher employment, environmental sustainability, and reduced poverty and malnutrition. Drawing on the literature on agricultural development in Asia, this article proposes four agricultural strategies that could help Indonesia to achieve these goals. First, to efficiently ensure food security…
Technology adoption, impact, and extension in developing countries’ agriculture
Given the stagnant agricultural productivity and persistent food insecurity in low‐income countries—notably in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA)—there has been continued interest in the adoption of new technology and its impact on productivity in these regions. To increase crop yields and sustain yield gains, recent case studies of technology adoption unanimously recommend the adoption of integrated farm management systems, particularly in SSA. On the oth…
The changing landscape of international migration
Evidence suggests that the poor cannot readily take part in overseas employment, largely because of high placement costs and poor access to job information. Using unique data on rural households in Bangladesh for 2000, 2008 and 2014, this study explores the socioeconomic characteristics of households which decide to send family members to work abroad and evaluates their changes over time. Analysis shows that the education of household members, as…
Governance, Information Spillovers, and Productivity of Local Firms
Information spillovers from multinational enterprises to local firms in developing countries are examined in the literature on global value chains and foreign direct investment. However, global value chain studies and foreign direct investment studies are carried out independently and separately. While global value chain studies describe an important mechanism that underlies the productivity improvements of local firms in developing countries, mo…
The Rise and Fall of Industrialization
The production of habutae , a simple silk fabric, expanded rapidly between 1890 and 1918 in Japan's Fukui Prefecture, with large exports to Europe and the United States. The production of habutae , initially woven by hand, was labour intensive, but it gradually became capital‐intensive after the introduction of power looms. Production and export of this fabric declined precipitously from 1918. In this paper, we attribute the rise and then fall of…
Strategy for the development of agro-based clusters
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (o…
An Inquiry into the Heterogeneous Outcomes of International Migration
There are considerable differences in the duration, intensity, and history of migration experiences among migrant households. The variation can have a significant effect on their investment behaviour. We classify our sample households in Bangladesh into four groups depending on the history and stage of migration and estimate its differential effect on physical and human capital investment. The results show that the patterns of investment are dist…
Learning from experts and peer farmers about rice production
Jobs Off the Farm
This study examines the effects of wealth, human capital, and social group on the occupational choice and income of farm households, to gain an understanding of the mechanism underlying the recently increasing income diversification in rural eastern India. The results show that wealth and human capital have a positive impact on the choice of high-return jobs, and low caste workers are more likely to work in casual, low-paying jobs, partly due to …
Is the learning crisis responsible for school dropout? A longitudinal study of Andhra Pradesh, India
Applying the Kaizen in Africa
This open access book puts forward the case for Kaizen management practices across Africa for effective industrial development, providing empirical evidence of the benefits while reflecting on the cultural and sustainability issues. Special analysis is given for Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Botswana
Population pressure, rural-to-rural migration and evolution of land tenure institutions
Contract Farming in Developed and Developing Countries
Contract farming (CF) has long been practiced but is becoming increasingly common in both developed and developing countries with the heightened interest of consumers in food safety and quality. Under CF, farmers and buyers make advance agreements on volume, quality, time of delivery, use of inputs, and price or pricing formula. This article critically reviews the literature on CF to assess how it contributes to improving production efficiency an…
Industrial Districts in History and the Developing World
Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture
This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization of agricultural production. On the other hand, the empirical results show that an increase in non-agricultural wage rates …
Cluster-Based Industrial Development
This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Tanzania. We focus
The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa
This article reviews the past and potential future roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as responses to population growth in the process of land use intensification and livelihood transformation. The farm size distribution and the existence of an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and land productivity in SSA and the implications of this relationship for efficiency and equity are investigated. More se…
Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Chinese Agriculture
This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization of agricultural production. On the other hand, the empirical results show that an increase in non-agricultural wage rates …
Women's Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership
An Inquiry into Constraints on a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Efficiency of Land Allocation through Tenancy Markets
Tenancy markets provide an opportunity to trade land between labor-scarce farm households and labor-abundant households. In China and other rapidly growing countries in Asia where rural to urban migration is becoming active, facilitating well-functioning tenancy markets is important to increase farm size and farmer’s income. In China, however, individual land rights are weak and in many communities land may be reallocated by village leaders to ot…
Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies
Learning from experts and peer farmers about rice production
Population pressure, rural-to-rural migration and evolution of land tenure institutions
Tenure, Agricultural Investment, and Productivity in the Customary Tenure Sector of Malawi
Determinants and consequences of land reform implementation in the Philippines
An African Green Revolution
This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, half the population lived on less than on dollar a day, and a staggering one in three people and one third of all children were undernourished. Africa has abundant natural resources; agriculture provides most of its jobs, a third of national income and a larger portion of total export earnings. However th…
Fiscal Decentralization and Development Outcomes in India
Theories of Share Tenancy
Induced Bias of Technical Change in Agriculture
Because of extreme differences in factor endowments and price ratios among factors between the United States and Japan, both countries have experienced sharply different patterns of factor use and productivity growth in agriculture for the past 100 years of modern economic growth. In this study, the method of testing the Hicksian hypothesis of induced innovation was developed using the two-level CES production function. The model was applied to t…
Is the learning crisis responsible for school dropout? A longitudinal study of Andhra Pradesh, India
Applying the Kaizen in Africa
This open access book puts forward the case for Kaizen management practices across Africa for effective industrial development, providing empirical evidence of the benefits while reflecting on the cultural and sustainability issues. Special analysis is given for Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Botswana
Assessing the Impact of Training on Lowland Rice Productivity in an African Setting
The Engines of a Viable Agriculture
Hand looms, power looms, and changing production organizations
TheKiryū silk weaving district, located 200 kilometres north ofTokyo, has been one of the most advanced silk weaving districts since theTokugawa period (1603-1868). In the 1870s, it was a pioneer in the export of silk products from Japan and the leading producer of traditionalJapanesekimonoandobi(sash belts) for domestic markets. This study finds that the developmental process of theKiryū district from 1895 to 1930 can be divided into at least tw…
The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises
There are diverse sources of credit for micro and small manufacturing enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries, ranging from relatives and friends, rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), micro finance institutions, and commercial banks. Using a unique set of data on MSEs in garment clusters in Nairobi, this study attempts to identify the determinants of access to different credit sources and their impacts on firm profitability and g…
Green Revolution, Land Reform, and Household Income Distribution in the Philippines
Viewpoint
Gains from female education in rural Bangladesh
Strategy for the development of agro-based clusters
Rice Green Revolution in Asia and Its Transferability to Africa
Drawing on the experiences of Asian countries, we attempt to identify the transferability of Asian Green Revolution to sub-Saharan Africa by examining whether there is a common set of factors affecting rice yields in the two regions. We have attempted to propose the strategy to realize a Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on lessons learned from the comparative studies included in this special volume
Induced Bias of Technical Change in Agriculture
Because of extreme differences in factor endowments and price ratios among factors between the United States and Japan, both countries have experienced sharply different patterns of factor use and productivity growth in agriculture for the past 100 years of modern economic growth. In this study, the method of testing the Hicksian hypothesis of induced innovation was developed using the two-level CES production function. The model was applied to t…
Community and Market in Contract Choice
Theories of Share Tenancy
Comparative Technology Choice in Development
Comparative Technology Choice in Development
Differential adoption of modern rice technology and regional wage differential in Nepal
In Nepal, which consists of ecologically distinct regions, the concentration of the adoption of modern rice varieties in the favourable rice growing areas of the country has raised fears that regional income disparities have widened. This study shows that greater demand for hired labour due to the adoption of modern rice varieties has induced permanent and seasonal migration from unfavourable to favourable areas. This appears to have largely equa…
Japanes agriculture a comparative economic analysis
Determinants and consequences of land reform implementation in the Philippines
The balance between industry and agriculture in economic development
Green Revolution, Land Reform, and Household Income Distribution in the Philippines
Agrarian structure and economic underdevelopment
Permanent Labour and Land Tenancy Contracts in Agrarian Economies
Keijiro Otsuka, Hiroyuki Chuma, Yujiro Hayami, Permanent Labour and Land Tenancy Contracts in Agrarian Economies: An Integrated Analysis, Economica, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 237 (Feb., 1993), pp. 57-77
Green revolution and labour demand in rice farming
While the adoption of modern rice varieties (MVs) increased labour requirements for crop care and other activities, it might have induced the adoption of labour‐saving technologies. Thus, whether the net impact of MV adoption on labour demand is significantly positive is still debated in the green revolution literature. Using farm‐level survey data collected in Central Luzon from 1966 to 1990, this study estimated simultaneously the labour‐saving…
Strategic processes in Monsoon Asia's Economic Development
Modern Rice Technology and Income Distribution in Asia
Green Revolution, Human Capital, and Off-Farm Employment
Role of agricultural research in poverty reduction
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Gender Differences in Land Inheritance, Schooling and Lifetime Income
"This article examines the difference in lifetime incomes arising from parental preferences in the allocation of land inheritance and investments in schooling between sons and daughters in the rural Philippines. Sons are preferred with respect to land inheritance, receiving 0.15 additional hectares of land, while daughters are treated more favourably in schooling investments, receiving 1.5 more years of schooling. However, differences in both cur…
Land Inheritance and Schooling in Matrilineal Societies
Growth and Development from an Evolutionary Perspective
Women's Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership
Tenure, Agricultural Investment, and Productivity in the Customary Tenure Sector of Malawi
Land Tenure Systems and Their Impacts on Agricultural Investments and Productivity in Uganda
This article provides an empirical analysis of the impact of different tenure systems (mailo, customary, and public land) on agricultural investment and productivity in central Uganda. A major hypothesis tested is that land investments and practices may have both economic and tenure security implications. The results indicate that coffee planting is used by farmers to enhance tenure security, while fallowing is practised to a greater extent by fa…
Process of Cluster Formation in China
In China industrial clusters consisting of small and medium enterprises have been proliferating in areas where private sectors have successfully developed. This study inquires into the process of forming a new industrial cluster and the roles of local and distant urban traders in the garment industry in China. We found that the local marketplace, where enterprise managers can easily purchase materials from and sell products to local traders, play…
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