Economic Growth and Foreign Policy: Asian and African countries

• Project/Area Number: 26380328
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Musashi University
• Principal Investigator: TOGO KEN 武蔵大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30308019)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 経済成長 / 外交政策 / ケース・スタディ / 外交 / アジア経済 / ケーススタディー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project focuses on the effect of foreign policy on the economic growth of developing countries. A paper titled as“Vietnam War and East Asian Economic Growth,”(Musashi University Discussion Paper No.82（December 2015）) was published on SSRN in December, 2015. The case studies of Indonesia and Mauritius are conducted. This project finds that not only foreign policies of developing countries but also foreign policies of developed countries affected on the economic growth of developing countries.